Balthasar Hermann

Balthasar Hermann (born September 1665 in Memmingen , † 16th June 1729 ibid) was a painter of the Baroque .

Life

The steeple of the monastery church of the Kartause Buxheim with the tower clock

Balthasar Hermann was born in September 1665 as the son of the pastor and master's degree Johann Conrad Hermann in Memmingen in Upper Swabia . On September 11, 1665, he and his twin brother were baptized in St. Martin . His twin brother Johann Werner died shortly afterwards. It is not known where Balthasar did his apprenticeship, where he went or what his masterpiece was. In 1697 he registered as a master painter in the responsible Kramer guild. He concluded the marriage on March 15, 1697 with the pharmacist's daughter Veronica Werner. On April 29, 1699, she gave birth to the only child of the marriage, which died after four months. His wife died in 1706. Between 1700 and 1709, Balthasar often worked for the Buxheim Charterhouse . On November 22nd, 1700 he sold this a copy of a painting by Pope Innocent XII. for five guilders. From the following period, no artistic works by him have survived in the Charterhouse. During this time he only seems to have done manual work. Setting chandeliers was just as much a part of his job as painting window bars or renovating sundials. In 1711 he and his painter colleague Johann Andreas Hommel applied for the pictures that were intended for the galleries of the Frauenkirche in Memmingen. However, the more capable painter Johann Friedrich Sichelbein , head of the Memmingen School , received the complete commission. On November 29, 1706, Balthasar Hermann married the Lindau bourgeois daughter Susanne Hünlin. Because of the sum that was demanded for her citizenship, the Memmingen council files recorded a larger correspondence. She had to pay the usual price of 25 guilders. All mediation attempts to reduce the fee failed. On October 5, 1707 she gave birth to the only child in this relationship, the son Christian Hermann . Further notes in the files concern the church chair in St. Martin, inherited from his first wife. The last entry is the date of death in the death registers. Balthasar Hermann died on June 16, 1729 at 2 a.m. He was 63 years old.

literature

• Günther Bayer: Memmingen painter at the time of the baroque . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-454-0 .