Franz Xaver Eggert (11 November 1802 – 14 October 1876) was a German
glass painter.
Life
Eggert was born at
Höchstädt on the Danube, and studied decorative painting at
Augsburg
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and Munich; but he afterwards devoted himself entirely to glass-painting, in conjunction with
Ainmiller, Hammerl, and
Kirchmair, and endeavoured to raise the art from its long decline. He especially distinguished himself by the magnificence of his ornamentation. His best works are in the new church of the suburb
Au at Munich, in the cathedrals of
Cologne
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and
Ratisbon, and in several churches at
Basle
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,
Constance
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Places
*Konstanz, Germany, sometimes written as Constance in English
*Constance Bay, Ottawa, Canada
* Constance, Kentucky
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People
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, etc. In 1840 he designed a scheme of stained glass windows depicting various saints at
Christ Church, Kilndown
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in the English county of Kent.
He died at Munich in 1876.
See also
*
List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
A
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
References
Sources
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1802 births
1876 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
German stained glass artists and manufacturers
People from Dillingen (district)
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