Daniel Block

Daniel Block , also Blok , Blockh , Blockhen (* 1580 in Stettin , † 1660 in Rostock ) was a German portrait painter of the late Renaissance .

Life

Daniel Block was a son of the businessman Martin Block, who had come to Stettin from Utrecht . In 1593 he was an apprentice to Jacob Scheren in Danzig. Block specializes in portraiture and worked at several courts, such as Christian IV of Denmark and Gustav Adolf of Sweden.

He came to Mecklenburg for the first time around 1609 . In 1612 he settled in Schwerin and in 1616 became court painter and secret valet of Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1623 he became the ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin fish master. In 1626 Duke Johann Albrecht II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow appointed him painting warden and fish master.

Block lost all of his belongings twice: first in 1630 as a result of the Thirty Years' War and then in 1651 during the fire in Schwerin. Then he moved to Wismar and finally to Rostock.

Three of his sons became painters: Adolf, Emanuel in Rostock, and Benjamin as the best known and most successful of them in Hungary, Italy and southern Germany.

Works

Adolf Friedrich I (around 1635), in the ancestral gallery in Schwerin Castle since the middle of the 19th century

Marie Katharine (around 1635), in the ancestral gallery in Schwerin Castle since the middle of the 19th century

Johann Albrecht II (1635), National Museum Warsaw

Marie Katharine
Johann Albrecht II.

literature

Block, Daniel von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 122 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1061 .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Block - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Daniel Block in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1062 .

personal data
SURNAME	Block, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blok, Daniel; Blockh, Daniel; Blockhen, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait painter of the late Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH	1580
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	1660
Place of death	Rostock

[1] Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1062 .