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Name
  
Franz Feuchtmayer

Died
  
1763, Augsburg, Germany

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698–1763) was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School.

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Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer (b. 1667); the nephew of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718) and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1666–1713); the older brother of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (1709–1772); the cousin of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (1696–1770); and the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (b. 1735).

Feuchtmayer worked alongside his brother, Johann Michael Fischer, Matthaus Gunther, and Ignaz Gunther to create some of the most famous churches in Bavaria and Tyrol. His style has been variously described as "lavish," "delicate," and "vigorous."

Bavaria

  • Augsburg—Dominican Church of St. Magdalena (1721–1724)
  • Augsburg—Schaezler Palais (1764)
  • Diesen am Ammersee—Church of St. Maria (completed 1739)
  • Diesen am Ammersee—Church of St. Georgen (1750)
  • Ellingen—Castle Church
  • Freising—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—Monastery Church of Mariae Himmelfahrt

    • References

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