Friedrich Stoll

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Friedrich Stoll (* 1597 ; † December 4, 1647 in Vienna ) was an imperial court and chamber painter .

life and work

Friedrich Stoll received Viennese citizenship in 1620 and worked for the Viennese court from 1623, where he was appointed imperial chamber painter in 1631. From this point on, he appears repeatedly in the Viennese marriage registers as the best man for his professional colleagues.

Probably the only surviving work by Stoll, which he painted for the imperial court, is now in the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. No. GG3113). It is a portrait of the first wife of Emperor Ferdinand III. , the Infanta of Spain Maria Anna and her son Ferdinand Franz . The work, which is kept in the tradition of courtly portraits , is likely to have been created around 1636 due to the age of the child (born 1633).

Portrait of Empress Maria Anna with Archduke Ferdinand Franz (around 1636). Kunsthistorisches Museum, Inv. No. GG3113

Stoll developed his greatest artistic activity outside the imperial court, for example the great patron Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein , who was only twenty-four at the time, bought four paintings from Stoll for 300 guilders , which are lost. Around 1636, Stoll is likely to have painted the "Coronation of Mary with St. Michael and donors" for the parish church of Straß in the Straßertal in Lower Austria . The donors shown are members of the Verdenberg family and it is known that the court painter Friedrich Stoll on May 15, 1636 by Count Johann von Verdenberg "to pay for his work in full, including the four altar panels on Gravenegg, Namist, Rossiz and Straß" Received 200 guilders.

Friedrich Stoll was evidently a very practiced and not clumsy portraitist of his time, as reflected in the meticulous reproduction of details such as collars, fabric inserts and cuffs; but also in the differentiation of the heads, the stiffness of the posture of the sitter and their clothes. This style is strongly reminiscent of some Dutch portraitists such as Anthonis van Dyck and, above all, of works by the Antwerp painter Joost Suttermanns , who stayed in Vienna in 1623/24 and worked here as a portraitist for the imperial court.

After 1640 Stoll probably no longer worked for the Viennese court. He died on December 4, 1647 at the age of 50 in Vienna.

literature

  • Walter F. Kalina: Emperor Ferdinand III. and the fine arts. A contribution to the cultural history of the 17th century. Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2003.
  • Alphons Lhotsky: History of the Collections. From the beginnings to the death of Charles IV in 1740 (Festschrift of the Kunsthistorisches Museum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its existence, Vienna 1941-1945).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Evangelist Schlager, materials on Austrian art history. In: Academy of Sciences ed. Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (ed.), set up by the maintenance of patriotic history, archive for customer of Austrian historical sources. Later under the title: Archives for Austrian History (Vienna 1850) Volume II, 661-780
  2. ^ Brigitte Fassbinder, Studies on 17th Century Painting in the Vienna Area. Dissertation University of Vienna, 82
  3. ↑ Schlossarchiv Grafenegg, Giornale des Count Verdenberg Hs. 39 fol. 185v
  4. ^ Walter F. Kalina: Ferdinand III. and the fine arts. A contribution to the cultural history of the 17th century. Dissertation University of Vienna, 207–209
  5. ↑ Gustav Gugitz, Fine Arts and Applied Arts in the wills of the Archives of the City of Vienna from the years 1548-1783. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna 9 (Vienna 1951) 119-150
personal data
SURNAME Stoll, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoll, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1647
Place of death Vienna