Emanuel Wohlhaupter

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Emanuel Johann Karl Wohlhaupter (born September 26, 1683 in Brno , † September 1, 1756 in Fulda ) was a German Baroque painter .

life and work

Emanuel Wohlhaupter (also Wohlhaubter in the older spelling ) was born as the son of the history painter Franz Johann Wohlhaupter and his wife Maria Elisabeth in Brno and was baptized on December 26th in the local parish church. He spent his first apprenticeship in his father's workshop before embarking on the usual journeyman's journey. This led him via Vienna to Northern Italy and finally to Venice , where he drew artistic influences from Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747), Antonio Molinari (1655–1704) and Angelo Trevisani (1669–1753 / 55), among others . In particular, the almost monochrome-looking light and dark painting of Wohlhaupt's later altarpieces, carried by warm brownish tones, seems to have been shaped by this. This basic mood of the paintings was then often joined by a contrasting, lively application of a few, but strongly luminous, basic colors.

From 1715 Wohlhaupter worked together with Luca Antonio Colomba (1674–1737) on the picturesque furnishings of the Ludwigsburg residence of the Württemberg dukes. After his return to Brno, he married Katharina Gränister on December 10, 1718 and took part in the efforts of the local painters to create guild regulations. In early 1720 at the latest, he returned to Colomba's Mainz workshop. In addition to working together in Biebrich Castle in Wiesbaden , in 1721 he also carried out the fresco paintings in the orangery there, which no longer exists today. In addition, he stayed in Fulda for the first time around 1720 to create a ceiling painting that was no longer available here as a trial assignment.

At the beginning of 1723 Wohlhaupter finally moved to Fulda, where he got a well-paid job as court painter to Prince Abbot Konstantin von Buttlar (1714-1726). After his first contract expired in June 1725, a new agreement was signed, which included the painter's obligation to design the large ceiling fresco in the central main room of the orangery and to carry out other work at the court and was valid until the end of 1736. Wohlhaupter moved into vacant quarters in an apartment set up above the wings of the orangery. In addition to the ceiling fresco of the orangery (until 1730), he also completed the painting of the imperial hall (around 1728), the paintings of the mirror halls in the southeast wing of the courtyard of the city ​​palace (around 1731-1735) and in the oratory of the university (around 1734) as well the altar panel of the Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit (1733). In addition, he also carried out work for other clients, e.g. B. in the Pontifical Seminary of the Jesuits (1731) or in the nearby Provost Castle Johannesberg for Provost Conrad von Mengersen . Further altar leaves by his hand can be found in Hammelburg , in the church of Kämmerzell , in St. Peter and Paul in Salmünster and in other villages in the Fulda region. He is also remembered by a number of paintings in Adolphseck Castle near Fulda, including portraits of two prince abbots and some landscape paintings and still lifes.

After the death of his wife Katharina on March 25, 1728, Wohlhaupter married Maria Margaretha Molter in 1729. In June 1735 he bought a house for 1,550 guilders in the Fuldaer Karlstraße next to the Gasthaus Zum Storch , where he also set up his workshop. A year later he took his citizenship oath and when his contract expired he was again working as an independent master craftsman. During this time, the wall paintings in the Quirinus chapel of the Johannesberg Provost Church (around 1740), the paintings in the castle chapel of the prince-bishop's summer residence Fasanerie (1744–1745) and several altar leaves or wall paintings in the surrounding communities, e.g. B. in Eichenzell , Flieden or Großenlüder . As the last major commissioned work, he took over from Prince-Bishop Amand von Buseck (1737–1756) from 1746 the execution of the ceiling paintings in Schloss Fasanerie. By this year at the latest , the young master painter Johann Andreas Herrlein (1723–1796) , who came from Grabfeld , was the new court painter in his workshop, who married Wohlhaupt's daughter Maria Theresa on February 6, 1747 and was appointed as his son-in-law's successor. In the next few years some of the work they did together followed before Wohlhaupter died on September 1, 1756 and was buried in the parish cemetery in Fulda.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Andreas Herrlein and baroque painting in Fulda. Fulda 1991. p. 16.
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Karolin Lubczyk: Emanuel Wohlhaupter and Baroque painting in and around Fulda . Frankfurt am Main, 2010. p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Wohlhaupter, Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlhaupter, Emanuel Johann Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1756
Place of death Fulda