Johann Michael Feuchtmayer

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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 Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler on numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Upper Swabia. His stucco decoration in the Benedictine abbey church (designed by Fischer) of Ottobeuren is considered his crowning achievement.^[1]

Stucco material made of aggregates, a binder, and water

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Johann Michael Fischer was a German architect in the late Baroque period.

Johann Joseph Christian was a German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver. His masterworks are considered to be the choir stalls in Zwiefalten Abbey and Ottobeuren Abbey.

Feuchtmayer was born into a family of artists in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. He and his uncle, the stuccoworker Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718); his uncle, the painter Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder (1666–1713); his brother Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder (1705–1764); his cousin, the painter and sculptor Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (1696–1770); and his nephew, Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger (b. 1735), comprise the Wessobrunner School.

Wessobrunn is a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria in Germany.

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner. With an area of 70,550.19 square kilometres, Bavaria is the largest German state by land area comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With 13 million inhabitants, it is Germany's second-most-populous state after North Rhine-Westphalia. Bavaria's main cities are Munich and Nuremberg.

Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.

Major works

Zwiefalten Abbey stucco design by J. M. Feuchtmayer Zwiefalten5.jpeg — Zwiefalten Abbey stucco design by J. M. Feuchtmayer

1891 drawing showing the stucco on the Gnadenaltar of the Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein 14HeiligenGnadenaltar.jpg — 1891 drawing showing the stucco on the Gnadenaltar of the Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein

Austria

Wilhering — Stiftskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (stucco in transepts and choir)

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Baden-Württemberg

Bad Säckingen —Convent Church of St. Fridolin (1751) (stucco)
Haigerloch —Pilgrimage Church of St. Anne (1753–1755) (stucco work and side altar design)
Kisslegg —Neues Schloss (New Castle) (1721–1727) (stucco figures of the Sibyls on the staircase)
Seeon im Chiemgau —Chapel of St. Nicholas at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Lambert (stucco)
Sigmaringen —Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist (altars)
Zwiefalten — Zwiefalten Abbey (1741–1747) (stucco)

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Haigerloch is a town in the north-western part of the Swabian Alb in Germany.

The sibyls were oracles in Ancient Greece. The earliest sibyls, according to legend, prophesied at holy sites. Their prophecies were influenced by divine inspiration from a deity; originally at Delphi and Pessinos, the deities were chthonic deities. In Late Antiquity, various writers attested to the existence of sibyls in Greece, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor.

Bavaria

Amorbach — Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Maria (high altar and other altars)
Augsburg —Dominican Church of St. Magdalena (1716) (stucco)
Dießen am Ammersee —Church of St. Maria (completed 1739) (stucco)
Ottobeuren — Benedictine Monastery Church of the Holy Trinity (1737–1766) (stucco)
Staffelstein — Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen (stucco on the Gnadenaltar)
Würzburg — Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung (1747–1750) (stucco)

Amorbach is a town in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany, with some 4,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the small river Mud, in the northeastern part of the Odenwald.

Amorbach Abbey was a Benedictine monastery located at Amorbach in the district of Miltenberg in Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.

Augsburg is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and regional seat of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, with 885,000 in its metropolitan area.

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References

↑ Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide, p. 584.

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[1] Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide, p. 584.