Bartholomäus Wittig

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Bartholomäus Wittig (* around 1610 in Oels or around 1613/14 in Breslau ; † March 24, 1684 in Nuremberg ) was a German-Silesian painter . He mainly created genre pictures and depictions of historical events as well as religious motifs.

Life

Bartholomäus Wittig was born the son of the businessman Noah Wittig. Wittig could have been born around 1610 in Oels, where his father worked. This is contradicted by the fact that no references can be found either in the Oels city archive or in the church registers of the Protestant parish there. Other sources assume a birth in Wroclaw and give the approximate year of birth 1613 or 1614.

From 1629 to 1634 he trained with the Breslau painter Michael Duquesne. Presumably he stayed in Holland and Italy between 1634 and 1642. There is evidence of his stay in Nuremberg since 1642. In this year the painting The disciples pull out ears of corn on the Sabbath was created , in the background of which there is a city view with a castle. From 1647 onwards, Wittig had an intense dispute between the Nuremberg painting trade and the city. What has been received is a letter to the council in which Wittig reported that so far he had only painted small copper plates, which he mostly sold to Italy and the Netherlands and thus did not harm the local painters. The following year he received two more years of city protection and permission to practice. It was not until 1654 that the council noticed that Wittig had been in Nuremberg for some time and had a high income, but did not pay any citizen tax . He was offered the opportunity to apply for citizenship, which he never obtained. In 1660 the painters tried again to subject Wittig to the painter's order. The council decided to remove Wittig from the painter's order, but obliged him to pay an amount to the painter's shop.

Wittig last lived on Dötschmannsplatz in Nuremberg. His brother Caspar was the owner of the Kugelapotheke in Nuremberg and married the daughter of Basilius Besler .

plant

Wittig's subjects were broadly diversified. He painted religious and allegorical representations, history pictures and genre scenes, flowers and night pieces.

Works (selection)

  • Painting collection in Vienna: A night-time feast (1640)
  • Nuremberg Castle: Description of the celebration of the Westphalian peace treaty in 1648 , Wittig made a copy of this for the Nuremberg City Hall.
  • Folk festival in front of the Nuremberg town hall (painting) (1649)

literature

  • GK Nagler, news in general Künstlerlexicon XXII, 5. Munich 1852. - Art-historical collections of the very highest imperial house, paintings. Descriptive directory by Eduard R. v. Engerth, III, 249, 250. Vienna 1886
  • Thomas Ketelsen, Tilmann von Stockhausen: List of paintings sold in German-speaking countries before 1800 , De Gruyter: 2011, p. 1852
  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Wittig, Bartholomäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 640.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bartholomäus Wittig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 136-137 .
  2. ↑ a b Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-11763-9 ; ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Bartholomäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Silesian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1610 or around 1613/14
PLACE OF BIRTH Oels or Breslau
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1684
Place of death Nuremberg