Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
Illustration — Interior of Ottobeuren Abbey, showing the stucco design of J. Feuchtmayer Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (sometimes spelled Johann Michael Feuchtmayr or Feichtmayr) (1709 – June 4, 1772) was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler on numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Upper Swabia. His stucco decoration in the Benedictine abbey church (designed by Fischer) of Ottobeuren is considered his crowning achievement.
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
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- Born
- 1709 · Wessobrunn.
- Died
- 1772 · Augsburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Movements
- Baroque
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Interior of Ottobeuren Abbey, showing the stucco design of J. Feuchtmayer Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (sometimes spelled Johann Michael Feuchtmayr or Feichtmayr) (1709 – June 4, 1772) was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler on numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Upper Swabia. His stucco decoration in the Benedictine abbey church (designed by Fischer) of Ottobeuren is considered his crowning achievement.
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Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (1709–1772) was a sculptor, of German nationality. The sculptor was born in Wessobrunn and died in Augsburg. Johann Michael Feuchtmayer was associated with Baroque. Languages used include German.
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Feuchtmayer was born into a family of artists in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. 1735), comprise the Wessobrunner School.
• Illustration — Zwiefalten Abbey stucco design by J. M. Feuchtmayer • Illustration — 1891 drawing showing the stucco on the Gnadenaltar of the Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein
Austria
Austria
• Wilhering—Stiftskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (stucco in transepts and choir)
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
• Bad Säckingen—Convent Church of St. Fridolin (1751) (stucco) • Haigerloch—Pilgrimage Church of St. Anne (1753–1755) (stucco work and side altar design) • Kisslegg—Neues Schloss (New Castle) (1721–1727) (stucco figures of the Sibyls on the staircase) • Seeon im Chiemgau—Chapel of St. Nicholas at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Lambert (stucco) • Sigmaringen—Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist (altars) • Zwiefalten—Zwiefalten Abbey (1741–1747) (stucco)
Bavaria
Bavaria
• Amorbach—Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Maria (high altar and other altars) • Augsburg—Dominican Church of St. Magdalena (1716) (stucco) • Dießen am Ammersee—Church of St. Maria (completed 1739) (stucco) • Ottobeuren—Benedictine Monastery Church of the Holy Trinity (1737–1766) (stucco) • Staffelstein—Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen (stucco on the Gnadenaltar) • Würzburg—Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung (1747–1750) (stucco)
Benediktbeuern, Anastasiakapelle an der Klosterkirche St. Benedikt, Hauptaltar, Assistenzfigur der hl. Margaretha von Antiochien von Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (und Johann Georg Üblher?)
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1709
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer was born on 1 January 1709.
1772
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer died on 4 June 1772.
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- 1.Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide, p. 584.
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