Benjamin from Block

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Portrait (lithograph from the artist gallery of Maximilian Franck 1818)
Benjamin von Block, portrait of Henriette Luise von Württemberg, 1643. Oil on canvas, Museum "The Hohenzollern in Franconia", Plassenburg ob Kulmbach.

Benjamin von Block , also Benjamin Blok (* 1631 in Lübeck , † 1689 in Regensburg ) was a German portrait painter.

Life

Block was probably an apprentice to his father Daniel Block , as did his brothers Emmanuel and Adolf. In 1653 he lived in Halle, Belgium, and from there went to Vienna to see his brother. There he met the Hungarian Count Franz Nádasdy . In 1653 he went with him to Hungary at his invitation and lived there for three years. In 1659 he went to Rome , where he worked as a portraitist of the nobility and also visited Florence , Venice and Siena . In the early 1660s he settled in Nuremberg and Regensburg. He created an entire picture gallery for Emperor Leopold I. Block was one of the first to the new technique of mezzotint anwandte. He soon became one of the most popular and busiest portraitists of his time.

Block was married to the flower painter Anna Catherina von Block .

literature

  • Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Block, Benjamin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 713.
  • Krieger, Martin: Benjamin von Block (1631–1689). A portrait painter of the 17th century in his relationship with Ansbach . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia, LXXXV, 1969/70, pp. 77-103

Web links

Commons : Benjamin von Block  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Block in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Gerhard Eimer:  Block, Benjamin von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Block, Benjamin from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blok, Benjamin; Blok Benjamin from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1689
Place of death regensburg