Grundung des III Ordens
Gründung des III Ordens FRANZ Hellweger Pinx
Hellweger was born as the son of the wealthy merchant Josef Hellweger and Elisabeth Damm. He attended school in St. Lorenzen, then the k. k. District secondary school in Brixen. In 1823 his father died when he was eleven years old. At the age of 15, he apprenticed with the painter Andreas Winkler in Mühlen in the Tauferer Valley, where he stayed for three years. The art lover Johann Vintler from Bruneck became aware of his work; he became his friend and supporter.
In October 1832 Hellweger went to the academy in Munich. Hellweger was accepted into the royal academy. He initially drew under Professor Clemens von Zimmermann in the Antique Hall. At the same time he attended Professor Heinrich Maria von Hess's painting class.
Death of St. Joseph, altarpiece in the Bruneck parish church
In 1837 Hellweger completed his first altarpiece, The Marriage of Saint Catherine, for the church in Aufhofen in the Pustertal.
From 1838 to 1840 he worked for Peter von Cornelius on the decoration of the Ludwigskirche in Munich with frescoes. In the summer of 1843 he helped Eduard von Steinle paint the choir in Cologne Cathedral with frescoes.
In 1844/45 he traveled to Italy with the brothers Johann and Claudius Schraudolph and stayed in Rome for five months, where he came into contact with the Nazarenes who remained there. Returning in 1846, he helped Johann von Schraudolph paint Speyer Cathedral. The “Stoning of St. Stephen” and the “Sermon of Johann Baptist in the Desert” were designed for the Bavarian windows in Cologne Cathedral donated by King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
In June 1851 he returned to Tyrol and devoted himself entirely to panel painting. In addition to altarpieces, which were also reproduced as devotional images, portraits were also created. From 1851 to 1862 he worked in Hall in Tyrol. In 1862 he moved to Innsbruck; In the same year he married Marie von Wenger from Hall, a daughter from an old trading house. The marriage produced two sons: Michael later became a priest and taught at the boys' seminary in Brixen, and Ludwig became state secretary in Innsbruck.
Of Hellweger's works, 78 identifiable paintings have survived today, some of which are in church and some in private ownership. Hellweger is considered the most important representative of Nazarene painting in Tyrol.
On February 1, 1880, Hellweger came down with a cold that worsened into pneumonia. As a result, he died on February 15, 1880 in Innsbruck.
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