Anton Mozart

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Self-portrait 1617, from the painting The Handover of the Pomeranian Art Cabinet to Duke Philip II of Pomerania.

Anton Mozart (* 1572 ; † May 13, 1625 in Augsburg ) was a German painter.

Life

Handover of the Pomeranian art cabinet

Anton Mozart worked as a landscape and figure painter in Augsburg. He is described as an imitator of the painter Jan Brueghel the Elder . One of his best-known works is the painting of the Pomeranian cabinet made by the Augsburg cabinetmaker Ulrich Baumgartner , whose handover by Philipp Hainhofer to Duke Philipp II of Pomerania in 1617 he captured in a group painting (today in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin ).

The copper plate of the art cupboard, which served as a lock for the apothecary's case in the cupboard, shows on one side the parable of the three faces of the doctor, made by Mozart. The saying goes:

“Tres medicus facies habet, unam, quando rogatur, Angelicam, mox est, cum iuvat, ipse Deus. Post ubi curato poscit sua praemia morbo Horridus apparet terribilisque Sathan ”

"The doctor is in order for the sick person, he must not give a doctor to anything. But a doctor has three faces: Angelic if he has the sick person. If the patient is in need of improvement, the doctor sees like a god. If the doctor speaks about wages, he has a devilish face. "

The portrait is divided into three parts and shows the doctor on the left with a bedridden patient, feeling his pulse and looking at a urine sample. The middle scene shows the doctor with angelic wings talking to the patient and on the right the patient is cured and the doctor pocketed his fee and the devil's claws on his feet reflect his third face.

Anton Mozart is said to have belonged to the ancestors or the family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

literature

Web links

Commons : Anton Mozart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1573 is also mentioned as an alternative
  2. ^ Mozart, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 207 .
  3. ↑ Eugen Holländer: Allegory of the medical activity . In: Medicine in Classical Painting . Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1903, p. 235–238 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With illustration and detailed description of the copper plate painted on both sides).
  4. ^ Johann Evangelist Engl: The Mozart family in Augsburg, Salzburg and Vienna . In: Festschrift for the Mozart centenary celebration in Salzburg on July 15, 16 and 17, 1891 . H. Dieter, Salzburg 1891, p. 9 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Mozart, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1572 or 1573
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1625
Place of death augsburg