Christian Berentz
Christian Berentz , also Christian Bernetz or Bernesis (* 1658 in Hamburg , † March 22, 1722 in Rome ), was a German painter during the high baroque period .
In Hamburg, Christian Berentz learned his trade from 1667 to 1673 with Hermann Kamphusen († 1698) and then with Georg Hinz until 1677 . He then left his hometown and stayed in the Southern Netherlands until 1679 . On the way to Italy , Berentz traveled to Flanders and Germany. He spent the remainder of 1679 in Venice and reached Rome in 1680. He stayed there until his death and was nicknamed Goudsbloem (gold flower). The painter Carlo Maratta adds figures to some of his pictures . Pietro Navarra , present in Rome until 1714, was one of his students.
Berentz created his still lifes in the succession of Pieter Claesz , Willem Kalf , Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraeten and Francesco Maltese . He also influenced the Bohemian Maximilian pillar (1656–1746).
literature
- Friedrich Noack : Berentz, Christian . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 381 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Anna Matteoli: Berentz, Christian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , pp. 277 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Berentz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the RKD
- Christian Berentz on artnet
- Still life in the Pinakothek
- Entries in Arthistoricum.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert : Directory of the electoral collection of paintings in Kassel . Johann Hermann Hampe, Kassel 1830, pp. 114–115.
- ^ Susanne Skowronek: author pictures. Words and images in the portrait engravings of poets and writers of the Baroque era. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000 (Dissertation University of Würzburg 1999), ISBN 3-8260-1804-4 , p. 204.
- ^ Pietro Navarra at the Dorotheum .
- ↑ Maximilian Pfeiler in the Dorotheum; Maximilian Pfeiler in the Alte Pinakothek.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berentz, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Christian Bernetz; Bernesis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1658 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1722 |
| Place of death | Rome |