Christian Wink

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Christian Wink

Johann Christian Thomas Wink (also: Winck ; * December 19, 1738 in Eichstätt ; † February 6, 1797 in Munich ) was a painter , fresco artist and etcher of the late Rococo . Since his appointment as electoral court painter (1769), he signed important commissioned works with “Bavarian Court Painter” (“Aulae Boicae Pictor”).

biography

Christian Wink grew up as the son of the prince-bishop's corporal Augustin Wink and his wife Walburga in the bishopric of Eichstätt . He is the younger brother of Johann Chrysostomus Wink , who helped him get an apprenticeship with Anton Scheidler in Eggenfelden , a friend of his painter colleague. After his apprenticeship, Christian Wink moved to Johann Jakob Feichtmayer's workshop in Eichstätt. He stayed there only for a short time and then went to Augsburg . In the 18th century , the Fuggerstadt was one of the most important art centers in German-speaking countries. Wink presumably attended the Imperial City Academy there between 1759 and 1760 . After a short stay in Freising , he moved on to Munich , where he worked from 1760. Since 1765/1766 his work as a history painter for the electoral court opera theater there has been secured. In this capacity he made sets based on designs by Giovanni Paolo Gaspari (1714–1780) and Lorenzo Quaglio (1730–1804). Only a few years later - in 1769 - Wink was appointed court painter to the Bavarian electorate . This title helped him to numerous, mostly church commissions within the Bavarian electorate . Apart from numerous trips, he lived and worked in Munich until his death (1797). Wink was married to Elisabeth Schega, the daughter of the Bavarian court medalist Franz Andreas Schega (1711–1787).

His work includes numerous frescoes in Upper Bavarian churches, in addition to the ones mentioned below also in Starnberg , Raisting and Kempfenhausen as well as the dining room of Schleißheim Palace . Less known, but no less in number, are his oil paintings. Wink was one of the most active painters in Munich in the second half of the 18th century.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Clementschitsch, Heide: Christian Wink, 1738 - 1797 , Vienna, University, dissertation, 1968.
  • Feulner, Adolf: Christian Wink (1738–1797). The outcome of church rococo painting in southern Bavaria , Old Bavarian Monthly, Volume 11 (1912).
  • Tyroller, Karl: The Rococo painter Christian Thomas Wink , Straubinger Hefte 38 (1988).
  • Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Winck . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 335 f.
  • Stoll, Peter: Elevations of the cross: The frescoes by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Bergen and Christian Thomas Winks in Loh , Deggendorfer Geschichtsblätter: Publications of the history association for the district of Deggendorf 29 (2007), pp. 67-94. ( Full text )
  • Hutter, Christine: Between Rococo and Classicism: The panel paintings by the electoral court painter Christian Wink (1738-1797) , Munich, University Library, 2009. ( full text )
  • Stoll, Peter: Johann Chrysostomus Wink, Christian Thomas Wink and the Way of the Cross in the parish church of Rohrdorf , Augsburg, University Library, 2010. ( full text )
  • Harriet Brinkmöller-Gandlau:  WINK, Christian (Johann C. Thomas). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 1399-1400.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Commons : Christian Wink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13908/
personal data
SURNAME Wink, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wink, Johann Christian Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichstatt
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1797
Place of death Munich