- Johann Georg Bergmüller
Johann Georg Bergmüller (
15 April 1688 –2 April 1762 ) was an important painter, particularly offresco es, of theBaroque .Life
Bergmüller was born in
Türkheim nearBuchloe (now inBavaria ) and received his first artistic education at his father'scabinet making workshop. From 1702 until 1708 he was apprentice to court painterJohann Andreas Wolff inMunich . In 1711 he went on cultural journey to theNetherlands in order to broaden his horizon. He becamemaster painter and received the citizenship ofAugsburg in 1711. In the same year he married Barbara Kreutzerin with whom he had ten children, one of which,Johann Baptist Konrad Bergmüller , became a fresco painter too, and also a renowned copperplateengraver and art theorist.Bergmüller quickly acquired a high reputation in Augsburg and created works of art, few of which have survived however. He became the most important teacher of fresco painting at the Imperial City of Augsburg Academy, founded in 1710. His style of composition and his motifs were influential on his pupils. In 1723 he published "Anthropometria", a textbook on the theory of proportions. He became the Catholic director of the academy alongside his Protestant counterpart, in 1730 and remained in this function until his death in Augsburg in 1762.
Works
* 1710: ceiling frescoes in
Kreuzpullach near Munich
* 1721: fresco-cycle at St Mary's Chapel (designed byEichstätt court architectGabriel de Gabrieli in Augsburg Cathedral
* 1721:Sacred Heart fresco-cycle at monastery church, Eichstätt
* altar painting at Dominican Church St Peter, Eichstätt
* altar painting at Jesuit Church, Eichstätt
* altar painting at parish and monastery church St Walpurga, Eichstätt
* 1727 - 1729: frescoes in abbey church St George atOchsenhausen Abbey
* 1736: frescoes inDießen am Ammersee
* altar paintings at parish churchAulzhausen Further reading
* DaCosta Kaufmann, Thomas (1979). "Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800". Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-22-642730-7
* Epple, Alois (ed.) (1988). "Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1688-1762. Zur 300. Wiederkehr seines Geburtsjahres. Ausstellung im Schloß Türkheim". Weißenhorn: A.H. Konrad. ISBN 3-87-437268-5.
* Kaltenbrunner, Regina (ed.) (2004). "Johann Georg Bergmüller: 1688 - 1762, die Zeichnungen". Salzburg: Salzburger Barockmuseum. ISBN 3-90-192529-5.External links
* [http://www.barockmuseum.at/ausstellung/strich/bild04.htm Thomas Aquinas (drawing by Johann Georg Bergmüller)]
* [http://www.kunstkopie.de/a/bergmueller-johann-georg/apollo-und-die-musen.html Apollo and the Muses (oil painting by Johann Georg Bergmüller)]
* [http://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/front_pic.php?idcatart=341&start=&view=upload%2FMuseum%2FBilder_aus_dem_Kupferstichkabinett%2F17kbergmueller.jpgDraft for ceiling painting]
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