Caspar Della

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Caspar Della , also Gasparo Della (* around 1583 in Benediktbeuern Monastery in Upper Bavaria ; † March 9, 1661 in Vienna ) was an imperial court and chamber painter .

life and work

Caspar Della has been living in Vienna since 1616, he married the daughter of the Viennese master pewter Hans Sichart. He was granted citizenship in 1617. His first work that appears in the sources is the priming and painting of “five baby Jesus” for the Capuchins on the Neuer Markt . In 1627, in connection with a portrait of Emperor Ferdinand II he had painted for the “Council Chamber of the Vienna City Council”, he was dubbed “Burger and Painter”. Della received a comparatively high amount of 60 Rhenish guilders for this . Tradition has always associated this portrait , which is now in the Wien Museum , with Caspa Della. The old inventory description has recently been discarded for reasons of style and iconography, so today's research sees a portrait of Emperor Maximilian II in the picture .

In 1636, Della received more than 1000 guilders as a "court painter" for painting delivered. After the accession of Emperor Ferdinand III. In 1637 Della was further commissioned by the court with work, which, however, was of a varied nature, mainly served purposes and so offered few opportunities for artistic deepening. In March 1638, Della gilded the wooden frame and the eight "sky poles" of the canopy , under which Ferdinand III. moved into Vienna as the new emperor. In 1639 and 1640 Della received 432 guilders for unspecified “court work”, and in March 1650 he was rewarded with 40 guilders for painting stag's heads and shooting targets. In the summer of the same year he was given permission to bring 60 buckets of Hungarian wine to Vienna against payment of the full toll.

In 1644 Caspar Della also worked for the imperial brother Archduke Leopold Wilhelm , so on November 16, 1647 he received from the Archduke "a fifth of his claim in the amount of 46  florins ". Between 1650 and 1654, Della was not mentioned in the court pay office books for a long time. It does not appear again until December 1654, when he painted the imperial coats of arms at the exequies of King Ferdinand IV for 340 guilders . Della was paid 457 guilders in 1655 for painting the castra doloris of the dowager empress Eleonora Gonzaga and King Ferdinand IV.

On March 9, 1661, Caspar Della, relatively old for the time, died at the age of 78 “of dropsy ” in his house on Kohlmarkt. His will shows him to be a wealthy Viennese citizen ; more than 150 paintings are detailed in the master's estate. His son Johann Caspar Della , appointed as a universal heir , who was also in imperial service, only survived his father by two years.

literature

  • Walter F. Kalina: Emperor Ferdinand III. and the fine arts. A contribution to the cultural history of the 17th century. Diss. Univ. Vienna, 2003.
  • Herbert Haupt: In the service of the imperial court. The Viennese court and chamber painter Caspar Della . In: Art and Antiques 3, Munich 1991, p. 29.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Stephan marriage register, Vienna, from January 31, 1616
  2. ↑ a b c Herbert Haupt, Cultural and Art History News from the Viennese Court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in the years 1646–1656. In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives 33 (1980), 351
  3. ^ Johann Evangelist Schlager, materials on Austrian art history. In: Academy of Sciences ed. Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (ed.), set up by the maintenance of patriotic history, archive for customer of Austrian historical sources. Later under the title: Archives for Austrian History (Vienna 1850) Volume II, 661-780
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Schwaighofer, excerpts from the court payment office accounts in the national library for the years 1637–1639. In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna, NF 10 (1936) 221-229
  5. ↑ Hofkammerarchiv, Hf. 1650 r, Sig. 818, fol. 318, 1650 July 8
  6. ↑ Hofkammerarchiv, Hofzahlamstbücher, Sig. 101, fol. 440, 1655 undated
  7. ↑ Alexander Hajdecki, Register of the Dead of the City of Vienna. In: Sources on the history of the city of Vienna, I / 6 (1908), 10683
personal data
SURNAME Della, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Della, Gasparo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1583
PLACE OF BIRTH Benediktbeuern
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1661
Place of death Vienna