Franz Sigrist the elder
Rococo religious frescoes and engravings
Franz Sigrist is an Austrian painter and printmaker . Trained by Paul Troger at the Academy of Vienna, Franz Sigrist developed a rococo style which also suggests a stay in Italy. His works are also influenced by the manners of Franz Anton Maulbertsch and Josef Ignaz Mildorfer. Established in Vienna, he stayed in Augsburg from 1754 to 1762 where he was court painter to the bishop. Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1754 he was appointed in 1755 professor of painting. Sigrist is best known for his religiously inspired engravings and paintings. Also creator of the remarkable frescoes Franz Sigrist is known above all for the three impressive ceiling frescoes in the vestibule of the Zwiefalten cathedral in Baden-Württemberg (1758) and for his large ceiling fresco in the village hall at the University of Eger (Hungary) representing the four faculties already belonging to the first period of classicism (1781).
Relationship Network
Master student
- Paul Troger Master
Influenced by
- Franz Anton Maulbertsch Source
Artworks by this artist
- Design for Book Illustration late 18th century
- Cimon und Pero 1775-1780
- Die heilige Ursula 1754
- Die büßende Maria Magdalena 1780-1790
- Der Tod des heiligen Joseph 1750-1753
- Der heilige Jacobus major und der Glaube 1750-1780
- Der junge Tobias heilt seinen Vater mit der Fischgalle 1753
- Design for Book Illustration late 18th century