Zeitungsreise: Living History

Chronicle

October 1826

Overview
In October 1826, reporting focused on St. Valentine's Church in Mais and its artistic decoration by the Puellacher painter family. A four-part ecclesiastical history treatise examined both the origins of Saint Valentine of Raetia and the architectural and restoration history of the holy building. Biographical portraits of Joseph Anton and Leopold Puellacher completed the documentation on Tyrolean art history.

Articles

Der Bote für Tirol1819–18294 tags

The Church of St. Valentine in Mais and the Puellachers (Continuation)

The third installment of this biographical essay details the later career of the painter Puellacher and the artistic training of his son Leopold across Linz, Vienna, Hungary, and Transylvania. The Napoleonic Wars prompt Leopold's return to Tyrol in 1804. A footnote is dedicated to the Nauders-born painter Anton Klapeer, who was active in Meran.

Der Bote für Tirol1819–18295 tags

The Church of St. Valentine in Mais and the Puellachers (Continuation)

Second part of the historical treatise on the Church of St. Valentine in Mais and the Puellacher painter family. Following an architectural overview from the 8th-century translations of relics and modifications in the 15th and 17th centuries to the 1826 restoration, the biographical account of Joseph Anton Puellacher begins.

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