- Johann Evangelist Holzer
Johann Evangelist Holzer (1709–1740) was an
Austria n-German painter.Holzer was born in Burgeis in the
Vinschgau Valley ofTyrol , as the son of amiller . He was sent to undertake a classical course of study at theMarienberg Abbey , but wished to study art; a portrait he painted ofJohann Baptist Murr , then the abbot of the abbey, convinced his father to yield to his wishes. He studied underNikolaus Auer and made rapid progress. At the age of 18 he painted the altarpiece of the Marienberg Abbey, depictingSaint Joseph as patron of the afflicted, ill, and dying. He then went toStraubing , where he learned how to paintfresco s underJoseph Anton Merz , which would become the main source of his later fame. He helped Merz paint the frescos of theOberalteich Abbey , and while in Straubing also paintedSaint Anthony of Padua for theFranciscan Church there.Following this period, he went to
Augsburg , where he stayed withJohann Georg Bergmüller for six years, and gained considerably more fame. His services were particularly in demand in Augsburg for painting frescos for public buildings and on the exteriors of houses, though few of these now survive. Among his works in other locations are a fresco in the garden hall of theBishop of Eichstädt , an altarpiece for the Jesuitenkirche in Eichstädt, an altarpiece depictingSaint Michael in the abbey church of Diessen, and a fresco in theChurch of St. Anton inPartenkirchen . His last and largest works are frescos for theMünsterschwarzach Abbey . At the time of his death Holzer had been commissioned byClemens August of Bavaria to paint frescos in the Hofkirche ofClemenswerth , but he died in 1740 before arriving there.References
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* "This article, or an earlier version, was translated from an article in the "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie", a work now in the public domain."
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