Elias Dollhopf

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"The man with the clock"

Elias Dollhopf (~ January 13, 1703 in Tachau ; † December 12, 1773 in Schlaggenwald ) was a portrait and fresco painter of the Baroque in Bohemia .

Life

Elias Dollhopf was the son of Johann Adam Dollhopf (~ 1665 in Tachau, † October 5, 1752 there) and Magdalena Maria, who came from a family of butchers. His parents had married in Tachau in 1690 and had a total of seven children: Elias, Johann (~ 1706 in Tachau), Maria Catharina (~ April 24, 1708 in Tachau), Anna Sophia (~ February 24, 1710 in Tachau), Adam Philipp (around 1710), Johann Franz (~ October 29, 1711 in Tachau) and Johann Adam (~ March 29, 1714 in Tachau). The citizen Johann Adam Dollhopf exercised besides the butcher's trade from 1737 also the office of the mayor of Tachau and is also called as "church father".

Elias Dollhopf received his training in the workshop of the then important Tachau painter Mathiowetz. As an assistant he supported him with larger orders in Schlaggenwald and was resident there in 1737. However, he did not receive his omission letter from Tachau until 1739. He married Anna Marie Sofie and lived in house no. 269, which was house number 8 shortly before the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia .

The artist, who was also considered a good musician, became a respected citizen of the imperial mountain town of Schlaggenwald. He was there from 1754 in the councilor's college and was elected mayor of the city in 1773.

"Elias Dollhopf pictor et consul obiit the 12th Decembris 1773" is recorded in the church register at his death.

The citizens of Schlaggenwald consecrated a plaque in honor of the artist after his death on the market. One of his descendants was the builder and painter Reinhold Dollhopf (1875–1963).

Works

  • Portrait of Abbot H. Ambros of Tepl.
  • Altarpiece, St. Mary Magdalene Church, Karlsbad
  • Frescoes and altarpiece, Kleine Kappl , Neualbenreuth
  • Design of the ballroom of the monastic summer residence Kloster Fockenfeld : frescoes for the Last Supper, 1768
  • Frescoes, Jakobikirche, Marchaney , destroyed in a fire in 1915
  • Frescoes, pilgrimage church Maria Kulm
  • Frescoes above the entrance to the chapel and image of the Blessed Hroznata as a knight, Collegiate Church of the Annunciation, Teplá Abbey
  • Frescoes, City Church of St. Giles, Tepl
  • Frescoes and main altar of the deanery church, Mies
  • Frescoes and altarpiece, Bartholomäuskirche, Pistau near Kuttenplan
  • Frescoes of the Way of the Cross, Stadtkirche St. Joachimsthal, Joachimsthal , completed in 1775
  • The man with the clock, today in the Schlaggenwald district museum
  • Frescoes, Trinity Chapel, formerly cemetery chapel, Falkenau an der Eger
  • Painted antependium on the stone canteen, Church of St. Wenceslas in Loket
  • Altarpiece, Saint Cecilia with Heavenly Messengers, Church of St. George in Horní Slavkov (Schlaggenwald)

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. 1, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna, 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 269
  • Martin Fitzthum: The church painter of the Upper Palatinate and the Egerland - Elias Dollhopf. In: The Upper Palatinate. Vol. 51, 1963, ISSN  0342-9873 , pp. 41-44.
  • Johann Hahn : Elias Dollhopf. A forgotten master. In: Messages of the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia. Vol. 50, 1912, ZDB -ID 516634-2 , pp. 147-149.
  • Wolfgang Rappel: Dollhopf, Elias. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 149 ( digitized version ).
  • Gertrud Träger: Elias Dollhopf (1703–1773). The activity of the great Egerland baroque painter in the Stiftsland. In: Edda Preißl (Red.): Festschrift 23rd Bavarian Nordgautag Waldsassen. Stiftland - country, people, culture. Laßleben, Kallmünz 1980, pp. 59-61.
  • Zbyněk Černý: Eliáš Dollhopf - barokní malíř západních Čech. Muzeum Cheb 2013, ISBN 978-80-85018-79-0 (cz)

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  1. ↑ Tachau parish office, baptismal register no. II / 381 (tom. II, page 381)
  2. ↑ Pfarramt Tachau, baptismal register, running from 1707–1716, page 20, April 24, 1708. Godparents: Marie Catharine Grünin, Elias Cantzler, Johannes Manzl, Margarithe Englin
  3. ^ Tachau parish office, baptismal register, term from 1707–1716, page 47, February 24, 1710. Godparents: Anna Maria Kreüzerin, Franz Grün, Johann Mangl, Magdalena Englin
  4. ↑ Pfarramt Tachau, baptismal register, running from 1707–1716, page 73, October 29, 1711. Godparents: Franz Grün, Chris. Cantzler, Margaretha Manglin, Magdalena Liebmans
  5. ↑ Pfarramt Tachau, baptismal register, term from 1707–1716, page 109, March 29, 1714. Godparents: Philip Engl, Johannes Mangl, Sophia Englerin, Catharina Grünin

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personal data
SURNAME Dollhopf, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Tachau
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1773
Place of death Schlaggenwald