Christian Richter (painter, 1587)
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Christian Richter (* 1587 in Altenburg ; † 30 May 1667 in Weimar ) was a German painter .
Life
Richter probably received his training from his father Erasmus Richter (1555–1608), who was Altenburg court painter and is considered the progenitor of the Richter family of painters and builders. His brother Augustus, who later became a goldsmith, was born on February 16, 1600 in Altenburg. Duchess Dorothea Maria appointed Christian Richter as a Weimar court painter in 1612/1613. He had four children with his wife Magdalena (née Hentzelmann) (1590–1629):
- Johann Moritz
- Albrecht (1623–1674)
- Wilhelm (1626–1702)
- Anna Marta.
His two sons Wilhelm and Albrecht also became painters. One of his grandchildren was the builder Christian Richter (1655–1722).
Trivia
Based on Richter's 1660 painting of the Weimar Castle Church (so-called Himmelsburg ), which was destroyed by fire in 1774 and whose organ Johann Sebastian Bach played and wrote many cantatas for it, a virtual reconstruction of the church was created in 2005 .
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- Duke Johann von Sachsen-Weimar with his family and " JakobsTraum ", 1613 ( Veste Coburg )
- The washing of Naaman in the Jordan , 1616 (Veste Coburg)
- Allegorical pair of children (drawing), 1623
- The Man Crossing the River, 1629
- Bernhard , Duke of Saxe-Weimar , 1630 (Friedenstein Castle, Gotha)
- Duke Wilhelm IV with his family in a room, 1632 (Stiftung Klassik Weimar)
- Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar with his wife and four princes and princesses, 1634/1635 (Veste Coburg)
- Ecce homo (copy after Lucas Cranach ), 1636 (Veste Coburg)
- Wilhelm IV, Duke of Saxe-Weimar with his family, 1638 (Veste Coburg)
- Eleonore Dorothea Duchess of Saxe-Weimar with her children Princess Wilhelmine Dorothea, Prince Bernhard and Prince Friedrich, 1640/1641 (Veste Coburg)
- Child portrait of Duke Berhard of Saxony-Jena , 1643
- Johann Casimir of Saxe-Coburg , 1646/1647 (Veste Coburg)
- Margarethe von Braunschweig-Lüneburg with the Tenneburg, 1646/1647 (Veste Coburg)
- View of Buttstädt (engraving), 1650
- Portrait of Duke Johann Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar (copy after Lucas Cranach), 1654
- Portrait of Erhard Weigel , 1655
- Portrait of Johann Ernst Gerhard , 1655
- Portrait of Christian Chemnitz , 1655
- Portrait of Ernst Friedrich Schröter , 1655
- Weimar Castle Church, 1660 (so-called Himmelsburg )
- Portrait of Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar as a military commander, 1660
- Portrait of Adolph Wilhelm Duke of Saxony-Eisenach (Weimar City Palace)
- Allegory of the transience of life (engraving)
- Portrait of a young lady with a feather hat
- Portrait of a prince in the coffin
- The unequal lovers
- Jupiter presses Antiope (drawing)
- The women of Weinsberg before Konrad III. (Drawing)
- The City Palace in Weimar (engraving)
- Portrait of Friedrich Hortleder (engraving)
- Portrait of Johann Ernst of Saxony-Eisenach (engraving)
literature
- Eissenhauer, Michael (ed.): The washing of Naaman in the Jordan. Christian Richter (1587–1667). Documents on the life and work of the Weimar court painter. Art collections of the Veste Coburg, Coburg, 1999.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meinolf Trudzinski (ed.), Heide Garpe-Albers (ed.): Low German contributions to the history of art, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 2002, p. 202.
- ↑ https://www.thueringer-bachwochen.de/de/programm/v6-die-himmelsburg/ Event for the virtual reconstruction of the church
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1587 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1667 |
| Place of death | Weimar |