Daniel Gran

Daniel Gran
Born	May 22, 1694(1694-05-22) Vienna
Died	April 16, 1757(1757-04-16) (aged 62) Sankt Pölten
Nationality	Austria
Field	Painting
Training	Sebastiano Ricci (Venice, Italy) and Francesco Solimena (Napels, Italy)
Movement	Baroque
Works	St Anna's Church's frescoes (Vienna), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Prunksaal's frescoes

Prunksaal: allegory of peace and heaven. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.

Prunksaal: allegory of war and law. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.

Daniel Gran (1694–1757) was a painter born in Vienna in 1694 who died at Sankt Pölten in 1757. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city. He was of some consideration in his time, but his works are not known out of Austria and Germany today.^[1]

Works

Frescoes

• Palais Schwarzenberg (Vienna)
• Prunksaal of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (formerly Hofbibliothek) (Vienna)
• Eckartsau castle
• Pilgrimage church Sonntagberg
• cathedral in Sankt Pölten
• Kaisersaal in Stift Klosterneuburg
• Neues Rathaus and Landhaussaal in Brno

Altar paintings

• Churches in the Stift Herzogenburg and Stift Lilienfeld
• Parish Church of Hirschstetten
• Cathedral in Sankt Pölten
• St Anna's church (Vienna)

Self portrait in the monastery of Herzogenburg.

Notes

1. ^ Bryan, Michael (1849). Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 293. http://books.google.com/books?id=NfcDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPP11,M1. 

References

• Knab, Eckhart (1977) (in German). Daniel Gran. Herold. pp. 308. ISBN 3700801319. 

Persondata
Name	Gran, Daniel
Alternative names
Short description	Painting
Date of birth	May 22, 1694(1694-05-22)
Place of birth	Vienna
Date of death	1757-04-16
Place of death	Sankt Pölten