Christian Neunhertz

Christian Neunhertz (* presumably in Breslau ; † July 12, 1689 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Neunhertz came from a long-established Breslau family. He was a student of Michael Willmann and after his training he belonged to his workshop. By marrying Willmann's daughter Maria Magdalena, he became his son-in-law. The baptismal register in Wroclaw lists the following children of parents Christian Neunhertz (painter on the cathedral) and Maria Magdalena (née Willmann):

October 6, 1683: Maria Barbara
February 13, 1688: Michael Leopoldt
May 11, 1689: George Wilhelm

Neunhertz died in the year his son Georg Wilhelm was born, who also became a pupil of his grandfather Michael Willmann. It is said of his death:

“Anno 1689, July 12th at 2 o'clock, Cristian Neunhertz, portrait painter on the Dohm […] lost himself, […] the guesswork was: Because he was laden with melancholy thoughts, also lost himself in the mere Hembde , and peeled off the rings from the fingers, and left them with the clothes that he ran into the Oder and drowned, no one has seen nor heard anything else from him "

Act

Neunhertz worked as court painter to the Bishop of Wroclaw Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt from 1671 . Some of his portraits are known:

Eleonora Charlotte, Duchess of Würtenberg-Oels
Anna Elisabeth, Duchess of Würtenberg-Oels
Sibylla Maria, Duchess of Würtemberg-Oels
Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Hessen (first in the Oberamtshaus on Blücherplatz, later in the reading room of the Diözcsanarchiv)

literature

Neunhertz, Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 419 .
Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland Silesia. Munich Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 68.

Individual evidence

↑ Bohumír Jan Dlabač: General historical artist lexicon for Bohemia and partly also for Moravia and Silesia . tape 3 : S-Z . Haase, 1815, p. 375 ( books.google.de ).
^ ^A ^b ^c Bernhard Patzak: IV. Christian and Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz . In: monthly journals for art history . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1908, p. 339 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Neunhertz, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Neunherz, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	unsure: Breslau
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1689
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Bohumír Jan Dlabač: General historical artist lexicon for Bohemia and partly also for Moravia and Silesia . tape 3 : S-Z . Haase, 1815, p. 375 ( books.google.de ).

[Monatsheft-2] A ^b ^c Bernhard Patzak: IV. Christian and Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz . In: monthly journals for art history . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1908, p. 339 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).