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Spiegler, Franz Joseph
(b Wangen, nr Ravensburg, 5 April 1691; d Konstanz, 15 April 1756). German painter. He was the most important monumental church painter of his era in south-west Germany. He trained in Munich under Johann Kaspar Sing (1651–1729) and allegedly also in Vienna. He has been identified as the cask painter J. S. whose payments for gilding work are recorded in account-books for his home district of Wolfegg in the years 1712–23. He is referred to as a master from 1721, the year of his first signed and dated paintings in the former Cistercian abbey of Salem and in the parish church at Erisdorf. From 1723 to 1726 he worked for the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren, whose abbot came, like Spiegler, from Wangen. Here, working alongside and learning from the Venetian Jacopo Amigoni, Spiegler produced oil paintings and his first ceiling frescoes (e.g. 1725; in the theatre).
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