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Flurer, Franz Ignaz
(bapt Augsburg, 12 Aug 1688; d Graz, 25 June 1742). German painter. He trained (1701–6) with the Augsburg painter Johann Rieger ( fl 1690; d 1730). By 1720 he was employed by Graf Ignaz Maria Attems (d 1732) to paint canvases and Baroque frescoes for his castles at Slovenska Bistrica (1720–21) and Brezice (1722–7), Slovenia, and at Gösting (1728–9; destr.), near Graz. He also painted frescoes for the Kursaal at Tobelbad (1732; in situ) and for a garden pavilion at Schloss Brunnsee (Allegory of Agriculture, 1733; in situ, rest.). His landscapes depict ports, travellers and Graf Attems’s castles. His religious works were executed mainly for churches in Graz, including St Giles (1730–33) for the main altar in Graz Cathedral. His compositions were derived from those of the Augsburg painter Melchior Seidl (1657–1727) and from Annibale Carracci and Pietro da Cortona’s frescoes in Rome; his landscapes were influenced by Italian art, especially that of the Venetians Marco Ricci and Luca Carlevaris, and by the Dutch painter Pieter Mulier (c. 1637–1701).
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