!!!Hellweger, Franz

b. St. Lorenzen im Pustertal/Val Pusteria (South Tyrol), Sept. 7, 1812, 
d. Bruneck/Brunico (South Tyrol), Feb. 15, 1880, painter, leading 
personality in the Nazarene ecclesiastical art movement in the Tyrol. 
Studied in Munich and 1838-1840 assistant of P. Cornelius during the 
painting of the frescoes in Ludwigskirche church in Munich. 1843 
together with E. v.  Steinle designed the chancel frescoes for Cologne 
Cathederal. 1844 in Rome; because of bad health later turned to panel 
painting and produced many altar-pieces (including for Silz, Mils, 
Weissenbach, Innsbruck, Brunico, Absam, Hall and Salzburg).

!Literature
B. Werkner-Delago, F. H. Leben and Werk eines 
Spaetnazareners aus Ti., doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1981.



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