Christoph Schwartz

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Portrait (lithograph from the artist gallery of Maximilian Franck 1818)
Christoph Schwartz, bust in the Hall of Fame (Munich)

Christoph Schwartz , also Schwarz (* around 1548 in Munich ; † April 15, 1592 there ), was court painter in Munich.

Schwartz was born around 1548 as the son of a goldsmith in Munich, where he was trained as a painter and fresco artist by Melchior Bocksberger from 1560 to 1566 . During his wandering he came to Augsburg in 1566. In 1569 he was granted citizenship and master's rights in Munich. In 1570 he went to Venice, where he took many influences from the Venetian style of painting, which he made known in Bavaria. After three years he returned and in 1573 first became a city painter, then a year later a court painter in Munich. Among other things, he received orders from the Fugger family, for whom in 1584 he painted the altarpiece Mary with the baby Jesus above clouds . The work of art was intended for the Jesuit church St. Salvator, today's St. Anna im Lehel in Munich. For Octavianus Secundus Fugger he painted an altar painting for the Benedictine Chapel in Ortisei and Afra , today's St. George's Chapel. This work was only planned and started by Schwartz, a personal draft has been preserved, but the altar sheet was finished and signed by Peter Candid .

In the Munich Renaissance church of St. Michael that hangs high altar painting "St. Michael fighting the devil ”from 1587.

The painting “Death of Adonis” from approx. 1570/1580 (Inv ..- No. GG 3827) hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (copy as a drawing in the University Library of Würzburg, Delin. VII, 5.23).

Christoph Schwartz, “The Raising of the Cross”, oil on oak, in the National Museum in Warsaw

In 1587 Schwartz painted the picture “The Raising of the Cross” in a small format on copper, which is now kept in the Lenbach House in Munich. A second, lower quality version hangs in the National Museum in Warsaw. The theme of the erection of the cross was a rare one among the altarpieces at the time. A copper engraving made by Aegidius Sadler in 1590 made this picture known in Europe and subsequently copied several times. There are large-format paintings in the St. Anna Church in Augsburg , in Antwerp and in the smallest German city, in Arnis . The painting in Arnis in the church there is the only picture in portrait format.

literature

  • Sandra-Kristin Diefenthaler: A municipal court artist: Christoph Schwarz , in: Dagmar Eichberger / Philipp Lorentz / Andreas Tacke (eds.), The Artist between Court and City, Petersberg 2017, pp. 327-340.
  • Dorothea Diemer, Peter Diemer:  Black, Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 804 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 , ( online )
  • Paul Johannes Rée:  Black, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 229-231.
  • Andrea Rueth: Christoph Schwarz. In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter: Monachia. Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005. p. 98.
  • Heinrich Geissler: Unpublished. Diss. 1960

Web links

Commons : Christoph Schwarz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolaus Schmidt : Arnis. 1667 2017. The smallest city in Germany . Wachholtz-Verlag 2017, p. 67f.
personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1548
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1592
Place of death Munich