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German sculptor
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger)
(17 October 1735 – 6 January 1803) was a member of the German
Feuchtmayer
family of
Baroque artists
associated with the
Wessobrunner School
.
He was the son of
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer
(the Elder) (1705–1764); the grandson of
Michael Feuchtmayer
(b. 1667); the great-nephew of
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
(the Elder) (1666–1713) and
Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
(1660–1718); and the
first cousin once removed
of
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
(1696–1770).
His most famous works are the
baldacchino
over the high altar and some of the side altars of the Premonstratensian Monastery Church of St. Maria and St. Verena in
Rot an der Rot
, constructed in 1777.
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References
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Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide
. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. pp. 628, 630.
ISBN
0-7148-2354-6
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