Weißenkirchner Weißkircher, Hans Adam#

b. Laufen (Germany), Feb. 10, 1646, d. Graz (Styria), Jan. 26, 1695, painter; brother of Wolf Weissenkirchner the Younger. After studying in Venice and Rome, lived and worked from 1678 in Graz as court painter of the Prince of Eggenberg, for whom he created his major work, the ceiling and wall frescoes in Eggenberg Palace (Planetensaal, completed 1685). He also did numerous altarpieces in Styria, e.g. in the Ehrenhausen Mausoleum, in Strassgang, Bruck an der Mur and Stainz, and in Graz in the Stiegenkirche ("church of stairs"), the Ursulinenkirche church and the Dominikanerkirche church.

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