Joseph Ignaz Appiani
Joseph Ignaz Appiani (16 October 1706 – 19 August 1785) was a South-German painter of the late Baroque era. He was the son of plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio, and Maria Sophia from Fürstenfeldbruck. His uncle was the plasterer Jacopo Appiani (1687–1742).
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Joseph Ignaz Appiani

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- Born
- 1706 · Munich.
- Died
- 1785 · Triefenstein.
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · illustrator · artist
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Joseph Ignaz Appiani (16 October 1706 – 19 August 1785) was a South-German painter of the late Baroque era. He was the son of plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio, and Maria Sophia from Fürstenfeldbruck. His uncle was the plasterer Jacopo Appiani (1687–1742).
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Germany
Germany
• Illustration — Ceiling painting in Seehof Castle
Bavaria
Bavaria
• Ceiling painting in the "White Hall" of Schloss Seehof in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg (1751–1752) • Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (1763 / 1764–1769) • Jesuit Church St. Michael in Würzburg (after 1770) • Triefenstein Monastery (from 1784) • High altar fresco in the old parish church of St. Jakobus in Bad Kissingen, "Jakobus heals the sick on the way to his execution", signed "Appiani" on the Great Dane's collar on the left edge of the picture (from 1775) • Heidenfeld Monastery Church (1783/1784)
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
• Collegiate Church of the Assumption in Lindau (1749) • Refectory in the Marchtal Abbey • Neues Schloss (frescoes in the stairwell vault and in the hall of mirrors) and Chapel of St. Karl Borromeo of the Meersburg seminary (1761–1762) * • Illustration — Fresco in the stairwell vault of the New Castle in Meersburg St. Michael, former church of the Deutschordenskommende Altshausen (approx. 1758 and approx. 1766/1767) • Holy Cross Chapel in Oberdorf near Konstanz (1748) • Catholic parish church St. Afra in Obernheim (Zollernalb district) (1751–1754) • Stadtpfarrkirche St. Blasius, Ehingen (Danube), ceiling painting with the Last Supper (1763–1766)
Upper Palatinate
Upper Palatinate
• Waldsassen Abbey Church (1727)
Rheinland-Pfalz
Rheinland-Pfalz
• St. Peter's Church, Mainz (1755/1756)
Hesse
Hesse
• Bolongaropalast in Höchst (Frankfurt am Main) (1774) • Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bad Camberg (1778–1779)
Switzerland
Switzerland
• Herrliberg (1732) • Zürich (1732?) • Arlesheim Cathedral (1759–1760)

Meersburg, Neues Schloss, Deckenfresko Verherrlichung der fürstbischöflichen Regentschaft (allegorische Verherrlichung des Kardinals Franz Konrad von Rodt), von Joseph Ignaz Appiani, um 1760
Joseph Ignaz Appiani

Joseph Ignaz Appiani, Meersburg Neues Schloss April 2010 1020079
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1706
Joseph Ignaz Appiani born at Munich.
1785
Joseph Ignaz Appiani died at Triefenstein.
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