Dominik Kindermann

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Dominik Kindermann (also Dominik Josef Kindermann ) (born November 9, 1739 in Schluckenau ; † June 9, 1817 in Schönlinde ) was a German-Bohemian painter, draftsman and portraitist. He studied in Rome with Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Girolamo Battoni and created a large number of altarpieces in various churches in the Czech lands .

Live and act

Dominik Kindermann has been interested in painting since childhood. His professional career began with a gilder in Bohemian Kamnitz . After a three-year apprenticeship, he went to the sculptor “Uncle” Josef Klein (1693–1782), who also came from Schluckenau, in Prague . Here he was taught by the Jesuit painter Ignaz Raab (1715–1787), who taught him to Franz Anton Palko (1717–1766) at the Vienna Art Academy . In Vienna in the Harrach'schen ancestral gallery he copied numerous pictures, including pictures by the Neapolitan painter Francesco Solimena (1657–1747). His further sponsor was then Ferdinand Bonaventura II von Harrach (1708–1778), since 1756 honorary member of the Accademia di San Luca , who made a study trip to Rome possible for him. From 1769 to 1775 Kindermann lived in Rome and studied at the Accademia di San Luca with Pompeo Girolamo Battoni (1708–1787), who worked in the late Baroque style of painting. He was also very interested in the early Classicist style of painting by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779), which was particularly evident in his altarpiece of St. Pius showed. During his stay in Rome he got to know the works of numerous famous artists, e. B. by Raffael (1483-1520) and the brothers Agostino Carracci (1557-1602) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). After six years he went from Rome to Naples and Herculaneum and studied the art monuments of Pompeii . In 1777 he was recalled by Ferdinand Bonaventura II von Harrach, the owner of the Schluckenau estate . When he returned to Vienna, he worked as the administrator of the Harrach family collections and painted numerous portraits, including the portrait of his patron Count von Harrach for the Náměšť nad Oslavou Palace and several altar paintings for its patronage churches. In November 1800 he created a catalog of his picture gallery for Prince Moritz von Liechtenstein (1775–1819), the owner of Frischau Castle at the time, and rated the pictures for a planned sale. In 1803 he left Vienna and went back to his homeland. He spent the end of his life in Schönlinde, where he died on June 9, 1817.

Works (selection)

The focus of his work is on altarpieces and paintings with religious and historical themes. His clients came from Vienna and the surrounding area, from the Schluckenau region, but also from Moravia and Upper Hungary , today's Slovakia . His style of painting is strongly influenced by Raphael Mengs. He colored clearly and harmoniously, in his best pictures also in effective contrasts of light and shadow. His works reflect the late baroque with the tendency towards rococo and the beginning classicism . Painting:

  • High altar painting “St. Maria Magdalena before Christ and the Pharisees "in the Maria Magdalenen Church in Krásná Lípa (Schönlinde)
  • Five altarpieces in the parish church of St. Wenzel in Tovačov (Tobitschau) in Moravia (1792 in Vienna), appointed by Franz Josef Graf von Kuenburg (1714–1793)
    • Main altarpiece Apotheosis of St. Wenceslaus
    • Altarpiece stigmatization of St. Francis
    • Altarpiece of St. Theresa
    • Altarpiece of St. Joseph
    • Altarpiece of St. John of Nepomuk
  • Altarpieces "The Nativity" and "The Dying St. Joseph "in the Nepomuk Church in Staré Křečany (Ehrenberg)
  • High altar image of St. George in the Georgskirche by Jiříkov (Georgswalde)
  • High altar painting “The Beheading of St. Jakobus ”in the deanery church of St. James of Česká Kamenice (Bohemian Kamnitz) (1797)
  • High altar painting “The Martyrdom of St. Laurentius "in the parish church in Jilemnice (Starkenbach)
  • High altar painting "The Fall of the Angels" with a depiction of St. Michael in the parish church of St. Archangel Michael in Rokytnice nad Jizerou (Rochlitz)
  • Altarpiece “Martyrdom of the Apostles Simon and Jude Thaddäus” in the former cathedral church of Spišský Štiavnik (Schawnig) in Zips county , now the parish church of St. Simon and Jude in Vydrník , Okres Poprad (Slovakia). The Church of St. Simon and Judas (Kostol sv. Šimona a Júdu) was rebuilt in Vydrník (Wiedrig) in 1799–1801. The place then belonged to the nearby Kláštor Spišský Štiavnik ( Monastery Spišský Štiavnik ) in the municipality Spišský Štiavnik (Schawnig), which was then also the bishop's residence (Biskupský kaštieľ). The current seat of the Spiš diocese is in the town of Spišské Podhradie in the OT Spišská Kapitula , Okres Levoča .
  • Altarpiece (1795) in Martinskirche in Brtníky (Zeidler) (church blown up in 1975)
  • Altarpiece “Apotheosis of St. Jakob ”(1802) in the parish church of St. James in Kralupy u Chomutova (church destroyed)
  • Portrait of Count Ferdinand Bonaventura II. Harrach in Vienna
  • Portrait of Emperor Leopold II in Strahov Monastery in Prague (1792)
  • Portrait of Franz Zacharias Römisch's family of entrepreneurs in Nixdorf
  • History painting "Aeneas, Sybille and Charon on the banks of the Styx" for the gallery of the Society of Patriotic Art Friends in Prague (no longer available)

Drawings:

  • Allegorical scene in a park with Kronos, Minerva and three other female figures, signed and dated Domenico Kindermann invenit et delin. in grotta ferrata 1765 (accessed May 4, 2019)
  • Belazar's Supper, signed and dated Domenico Kindermann invenit e design. a Marino 1767
  • The conversion of St. Paul, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Nepomuk Church in Staré Křečany

  • The sanctuary of the Maria Magdalene Church in Krásná Lípa

  • Jacob's Church in Česká Kamenice

  • Wenceslas Church in Tovačov

  • Ferdinand Bonaventura II von Harrach - his sponsor

  • The conversion of St. Paulus (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

literature

Web links

Commons : Dominik Kindermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography - Kindermann, Dominik (accessed May 4, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c Aleš Vrtal: Dominik Kindermann a jeho oltářní obrazy v Tovačově (Dominik Kindermann and his altarpieces in Tobitschau), Bachelor thesis, Masaryk University Brno, 2008, 33 pp. (Czech) (accessed on May 4, 2019 )
  3. ↑ Slavíček, Lubomír: Catalog of the Liechtenstein picture gallery at the castle in Frischau by Dominik Kindermann from 1801 (now in the Brno City Archives), in Opuscula historiae artium - Masarykova univerzita, 2016, roč. 65, č. 2, p. 132-155. ISSN 1211-7390, see [1] (accessed May 4, 2019)
  4. ↑ Slavíček, Lubomír: "... and is the largest and most valuable gallery in Moravia" - the inventory of the Liechtenstein picture gallery at the castle in Frischau, in Opuscula historiae artium studia minora Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis, F 51, 2007, p. 127 –163, see [2] (accessed on May 4, 2019)
  5. ↑ Otto's Konversationslexikon, Vol. 14, p. 231 (Czech) (accessed on May 4, 2019)
  6. ↑ a b Alžběta Straussová: Kostel sv. Jana Nepomuckého ve Starých Křečanech , Bachelor thesis , Charles University Prague, 2014, 64 p. (Accessed on May 4, 2019)
  7. ↑ Deanery Church of St. James of Česká Kamenice (Czech) (accessed on May 7, 2019)
  8. ↑ Deanery Church of St. Laurentius Jilemnice (Czech) (accessed May 7, 2019)
  9. ↑ Fiedler, Josef: Heimatskunde des political district Schluckenau, 1898, p. 203, see [3] (accessed on May 4, 2019)
  10. ↑ Parish Church of St. Michael Rokytnice (Czech) (accessed May 7, 2019)
  11. ↑ Martinskirche Brtníky (Czech) (accessed on May 7, 2019)
  12. ↑ Koller Auctions Zurich (accessed on May 4, 2019)
  13. ↑ Dorotheum-Online (accessed on May 4, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Kindermann, Dominik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kindermann, Dominik Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Schluckenau
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1817
Place of death Schönlinde