Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer


Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.
Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey. A sculptor and stuccoist, he was responsible for the choir stalls in the Benedictine monastery church in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, and for the sculptures on the altars and pulpits in the Parish Church of St. Maria in Seitenstetten, Austria. He also assisted in the rebuilding of the Salem Abbey, destroyed in a fire in 1697. He died in Mimmenhausen.
He was the brother of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer and Michael Feuchtmayer ; the father of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer ; the uncle of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; and the great-uncle of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer .