Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698–1763) was a German Baroque stucco

plasterer A plasterer is a tradesman or tradesperson who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. The process of creating plasterwork, called plastering, has been ...

of the

Wessobrunner School The Wessobrunner School is the name for a group of Baroque stucco-workers that, beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine Wessobrunn Abbey in Bavaria, Germany. The names of more than 600 stucco-workers who emerged f ...

. Feuchtmayer was born in

Wessobrunn Wessobrunn is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria in Germany. Paterzell airfield Paterzell airfield is located in Wessobrunn.

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

. A member of the famous

Feuchtmayer The Feuchtmayers (also spelled Feuchtmayr, Feichtmair, and Feichtmayr) were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School. The best-known members of the family were the brothers Franz Joseph, Johann Michael (the Elder), and Michae ...

family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer (b. 1667); the nephew of

Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (9 March 1660 (baptized) – 25 December 1718) was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School. Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey. A sculptor and stuccoist, he ( ...

(1660–1718) and

Johann Michael 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 Fis ...

(the Elder) (1666–1713); the older brother of

(the Younger) (1709–1772); the cousin of

Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (6 March 1696 (baptized) – 2 January 1770) was an important Rococo stuccoist and sculptor, active in southern Germany and Switzerland. J. A. Feuchtmayer was born in Linz, a member of the famous Feuchtmayer family ...

(1696–1770); and the father of

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698–1763) was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School. Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmay ...

(the Younger) (b. 1735). Feuchtmayer worked alongside his brother,

Johann Michael Fischer Johann Michael Fischer (18 February 1692 – 6 May 1766) was a German architect in the late Baroque period. Fischer was born in Burglengenfeld, Upper Palatinate. He is a major representative of south German Baroque architects. He studied in Bohem ...

Matthäus Günther Matthäus Günther (also Mathäus Günther) (7 September 1705 – 30 September 1788) was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era. Günther, who was born in Peissenberg (at that time: Tritschengreith), helpe ...

, and

Ignaz Günther Ignaz Günther (22 November 1725 – 27 June 1775) was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian Rococo tradition. He was born in Altmannstein, where he received his earliest training from his father, then studied in Munich und ...

to create some of the most famous churches in

and

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. His style has been variously described as "lavish," "delicate," and "vigorous."''Austria: A Phaidon Cultural Guide,'' p. 182.

Major works

Bavaria

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—Dominican Church of St. Magdalena (1721–1724) *

—Schaezler Palais (1764) *

Dießen am Ammersee Dießen am Ammersee (Southern Bavarian: ''Diaßn am Ammasä'') is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany. It is located on the shores of the Ammersee. Geography Situated in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland the town stret ...

—Church of St. Maria (completed 1739) *

—Church of St. Georgen (1750) *

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—Castle Church *

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—Neustift Monastery Church (1765) * Indersdorf—Augustinian Canonry (1755) * Rott am Inn—Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus (dome frescoes and other frescoes) (1763) * Steinbach—Pilgrimage Church of St. Maria (1764) * Staffelstein— Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen

Tyrol

* Fiecht— Collegiate Church of St. Josef (1740–1744) * Innsbruck—Wilten Basilica (1754) *

Stams Stams is a municipality in Imst District, in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is chiefly known for Cistercian Stams Abbey (''Stift Stams''), founded in 1273 by Count Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol and his wife.Chizzali. ''Tyrol: Impressions of Tyrol. ...

—Monastery Church of Mariae Himmelfahrt

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feuchtmayer, Franz Xaver 1698 births 1763 deaths People from Weilheim-Schongau German Baroque sculptors German male sculptors