Joseph Ignaz Appiani

Joseph Ignaz Appiani (16 October 1706 – 19 August 1785) was a South-German painter of the late Baroque era. He was the son of plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio, and Maria Sophia from Fürstenfeldbruck. His uncle was the plasterer Jacopo Appiani (1687–1742).

Works

Germany

Bavaria

• Ceiling painting in the "White Hall" of Schloss Seehof in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg (1751–1752)
• Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (1763 / 1764–1769)
• Jesuit Church St. Michael in Würzburg (after 1770)
• (from 1784)
• High altar fresco in the old parish church of in Bad Kissingen, "Jakobus heals the sick on the way to his execution", signed "Appiani" on the Great Dane's collar on the left edge of the picture (from 1775)
• (1783/1784)

Baden-Württemberg

• Collegiate Church of the Assumption in Lindau (1749)
• Refectory in the Marchtal Abbey
• Neues Schloss (frescoes in the stairwell vault and in the hall of mirrors) and Chapel of St. Karl Borromeo of the Meersburg seminary (1761–1762)
• St. Michael, former church of the (approx. 1758 and approx. 1766/1767)
• Holy Cross Chapel in Oberdorf near Konstanz (1748)
• Catholic parish church St. Afra in Obernheim (Zollernalb district) (1751–1754)
• , Ehingen (Danube), ceiling painting with the Last Supper (1763–1766)

Upper Palatinate

• Waldsassen Abbey Church (1727)

Rheinland-Pfalz

• St. Peter's Church, Mainz (1755/1756)

Hesse

• in Höchst (Frankfurt am Main) (1774)
• in Bad Camberg (1778–1779)

Switzerland

• Herrliberg (1732)
• Zürich (1732?)
• Arlesheim Cathedral (1759–1760)

References

• Joseph Appiani at www.galerie-fach.de