Elias Galli

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Elias Galli (also Gallis or Galle) (* 1650 in Hamburg ; † 1712 or 1714 ibid) was a German painter who was best known for portraits and Hamburg city ​​vedutas .

origin

From Easter 1648 onwards, Elias Galli's (possible) father worked as a sexton in the church of St. Georg , he died on August 11, 1674. At that time the village was at the gates of Hamburg. Carl Georg Heise considers a relationship with the Hamburg official painter Jürgen Hahn († 1648) to be more likely and refers to the Latinization of family names that was customary at that time (Ger. Hahn = Latin Gallus , Galli = des Hahns [son]). In the specialist literature it is assumed that Galli had painted the church with biblical motifs before he was appointed sexton, but no work of this kind can be verified for him today. Galli lived in Hamburg from 1650 to 1670.

Create

City view of Hamburg around 1680

Nothing is known about the education of his son Elias Galli, who was born in 1650 ( the elder to distinguish himself from his son). However, his half-life-size full-length portraits and his family portraits were in great demand. He also painted still lifes and lively, detailed street landscapes in the manner of the Dutch artist Caspar Netscher .

In 1678 he created a painting for the altar of the master Albrecht Mitte for the Groden church. His portraits, such as that of Pastor Franz Simon the Elder († 1679) in the Holy Trinity Church, became famous . He created another church painting in 1705 for the palace in front of Husum and signed it as Galli from Hamburg, probably to set himself apart from his son, who was then already a court painter in Gottorf. This picture was sold to Horsens when the church was demolished and has not survived

His works are now kept in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Museum of Hamburg History and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig .

His biography is unclear and confusing because of the similarity of names over the generations; while Georg Kaspar Nagler apparently confuses him in part with Pieter Gallis (1633-1697), the representation by Ernst Rump is still contradicting in 2013, Thieme-Becker (1921) assumed these contradictions from three different people, Weilbach (before 1994 ) on the other hand from two.

The Messberg , probably from Elias Galli the Elder

The art historian Carl Schellenberg sought clarification . He came to the conclusion that Elias Galli was three people in a family. In a criminalistic manner, Schellenberg searched contemporary literature for descriptions of Hamburg buildings, fashions or events in order to be able to determine the dating and thus the originator of Galli works of art more precisely. In the painting The Messberg , among other things, he came across a now faded signature by Galli. He then assigned the painting to the year 1682 - in contrast to the dating of the Museum of Hamburg History, which here assumes the year 1663. After a meticulous comparison of the style characteristics of the paintings, Schellenberg found that all five Hamburg city vedutas had been created by Elias Galli the Elder.

Elias Galli the Younger

Johann Volckmar, after a painting by Elias Galli, the younger, engraved by Martin Bernigeroth

His son of the same name Elias Galli (* 1676; † after 1717, maybe 1721) was proven from 1701 through buying a house and baptizing children in Schleswig . He was Holstein court painter and worked at the Husum Castle and Castle Gottorp . The portrait of the main pastor of St. Catherine's Church in Hamburg and Seniors of the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs Johann Volckmar († 1715) comes from him as part of the epitaph from 1715. He is mentioned in 1717 in Amsterdam as a ducal Holstein chamber painter.

literature

Web links

Commons : Elias Galli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Georg Heise : Galli I, Elias . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Short entry: Mitte, Albrecht . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 597 .
  3. ↑ Fig. As an engraving in the digital portrait index.
  4. ^ Nagler: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 5, Munich 1837, p. 2 (and probably also in of the following edition).
  5. ↑ Fig. As an engraving in the digital portrait index.
  6. ^ Carl Schellenberg: Elias Galli. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Galli, Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallis, Elias; Galle, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1712 or 1714
Place of death Hamburg