Andreas Riehl the Younger

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Andreas Riehl the Younger , also Ruhl, Rühel or Rihl, (born 1551 in Breslau , Principality of Breslau ; died 1616 in Ansbach ) was a Silesian portrait painter who worked as court painter for various German princes in Nuremberg , Berlin and Ansbach .

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alternative description
Monogram AR

Riehl's parents were the painter Andreas Riehl the Elder († 1567) and his first wife Anna. He left Breslau after a conflict with the painters' guild and came to Nuremberg, where he was accepted as a citizen in 1575. Between 1589 and 1591, Riehl portrayed Elector Christian I and Electress Sophia of Saxony, as well as Erdmuthe of Brandenburg, among others . In the period from 1596 to 1598 he worked as a court painter at the court of Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg, as can be seen in a series of portraits of the princely family of Johann Georg von Brandenburg, in which his wife Elisabeth and their children Georg Albrecht and Dorothea Sibylla , Elisabeth Sophia , Agnes and Magdalena can be seen (the collection is missing a complete picture of Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Bayreuth and the complete picture of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Ansbach, which were previously together with the others in the Berlin Palace ). The works exhibited in the Grunewald hunting lodge originally come from the ancestral gallery on the Plassenburg near Kulmbach. In this gallery, Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth first assembled the portraits of members of his families. Riehl received a salary of 200 thalers, since the elector did not pay him, he went to Ansbach as a court painter in 1599 and demanded his outstanding wages from there. After his death in 1603, he created several paintings by Margrave Georg Friedrich on behalf of Elector Christian II of Saxony, who continued the collection of paintings. The monogram of ARRiehl and his father is based on that of Albrecht Dürer . It shows, similar to this Albrecht Dürer monogramone, a capital A over one of R. Riehl's son Leonhard was also a painter and together with him produced several portraits in Heilsbronn Monastery .

Works in exhibitions

  • 2012 Kurhut und Krone - Brandenburg-Prussian rulers and their families, Grunewald hunting lodge

literature

Web links

Commons : Andreas Riehl the Younger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Stillfried-Alcántara: Heilsbronn Monastery. A contribution to the Hohenzollern research . Carl Heymann's Verlag, Berlin 1877, p. 162 : “The richly carved frame for these sculptures was made in 1615 by the sculptor Georg Prenk from Windsheim; the pictures themselves were painted in this and the following year by the court painter Andreas Rühl, but were completed by his son Leonhard after his death. "
  2. ↑ Marek Pierzchała, Ewa Houszka: O wrocławskim kolekcjonerstwie i historii muzealnych . Ed .: National Museum Wroclaw. Breslau 2009, ISBN 978-83-8676674-1 , p. 149 .
  3. ^ Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (ed.): Baltic Studies . New episode band 39 , 1937 ( digital-bibliothek-mv.de ).
  4. ^ Alwin Schultz: Ruhl (Riehl, Rihl, Rühel), Andreas Riehl the Elder. J. In: Studies on the history of the Silesian painters (1500-1800) . Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1882, p. 130 ( dbc.wroc.pl ).
  5. ↑ The Return of the Dead Margrave . In: Frankenpost . June 2, 2010 ( frankenpost.de ).
  6. ↑ Riehl, Andreas d. J. SKD - Online Collection, accessed September 28, 2018 .
  7. ^ Friedrich Hermann Hofmann: The art at the court of the Margraves of Brandenburg. Franconian line . Ed .: Getty Research Institute. JHE Heitz, Strasbourg 1901, p. 82-83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ New permanent exhibition in the Grunewald hunting lodge . April 2012 ( Wissenschaft.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Riehl, Andreas the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1551
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , Principality of Breslau
DATE OF DEATH 1616
Place of death Ansbach