Christian Schwartz (painter)

Christian Schwartz , also Schwartze , (born October 12, 1645 in Dresden , † May 21, 1684 in Reichstädt ) was an electoral Saxon vice wine master and distinguished citizen and painter in the royal seat of Dresden.

Life

He was the son of the Saxon wine master Nicolaus Schwartz (e), who died on June 10, 1681. His mother Maria, born Danneberger, died on January 15, 1670. The deacon Mag. Johann Christoph Schwartz at the Annenkirche in Dresden was his brother.

On October 14, 1645, he was baptized Christian in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. He received his education from private tutors and when he was 16 years old he discovered his talent for painting. With the support of a friend of his parents, Christian Schwartz was sent to Hamburg in 1661 , where he began an apprenticeship with the painter Johann Caspar Patenti († 1681), which he successfully completed after five years. Subsequently, he undertook a multi-year educational trip through Germany and abroad, which took him to Vienna in 1671. There he became valet of the imperial chamberlain, Count Johann Sebastian von Pötting. He stayed in his service for three years and returned to Dresden in 1675 at the request of his father, where he stood by his father, who was electoral wine master, as an adjunct. In 1677, the Chamber Director Johann Georg von Schleinitz was appointed Vice Wine Master of Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony. As such, he was responsible for viticulture, the winery and the storage of wine in Dresden and the surrounding area, primarily in the Dresden office. With the death of his father in 1681 this employment relationship ended. From then on Christian Schwartz devoted himself only to art painting as a freelance artist.

On June 3, 1678 he married Anna Rosina, the daughter of the Dresden citizen and innkeeper Daniel Gotsch, who gave him a son and two daughters.

When on the third day of Easter in 1684 there was severe frost and immediately afterwards great heat, Christian Schwartz contracted a violent cough, which led to a severe weakening of his body. When he and his brother wanted to visit a friend who lived in the countryside in the Eastern Ore Mountains on the second day of Pentecost, the blow struck him on the way from Dippoldiswalde to Reichstädt. He was brought from the street to the first neighboring house and immediately laid in a bed, where he was 7 months and 9 in the evening around 7 p.m. at the age of 38, despite the administration of high-quality medication, which the electoral captain Christoph von Nostitz provided him with Days died.

The funeral sermon given by the Dresden city preacher and senior of the city ministry Christian Lucius on the occasion of his burial on June 1, 1684 in the Frauenkirche in Dresden was published by Christoph Baumann in Dresden.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Only a few copies of the funeral sermon have come down to us. One copy is in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , cf. here [1]