Gabriel Karg

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Gabriel Karg (* around / before 1570 in Augsburg ; † between 1630 and 1640 probably there) was a Swabian painter who worked for a time in Württemberg in Stuttgart and Tübingen , as well as in Augsburg. He was a son of the painter Hans Karg, who worked at the Stuttgart court .

Gabriel Karg: Johann Theodor Schnepf, pastor of Derendingen (oil portrait, 1601)
Johannes Magirus (oil portrait, 1604)

Life

Gabriel Karg probably came to Stuttgart in 1591, where his father worked on the painting of the new pleasure house and was also involved in this work. Later, unlike his father, Gabriel Karg probably only painted portraits. In 1594 he probably painted an oil portrait of Johann Magirus , of which he made a very similar portrait again in 1604, labeled “G. Karg ”is signed. In search of a correspondingly large number of wealthy customers, he then settled in Tübingen, where he was matriculated in 1601 as "illuminista". The great competition among painters in Tübingen prompted him to leave Tübingen at the latest in 1606 and return to Augsburg. Six portraits from his work in Württemberg have been preserved in recent times, two of which are in the Tübingen Professors' Gallery.

More famous works

  • 1594 Johannes Magirus (oil)
  • 1600 Daniel Schrötlin [Stuttgarter Stiftspropst ] (oil, signed "GK", destroyed 1944)
  • 1600 Frau Schrötlin [wife of Daniel Schrötlin] (oil, signed "GK", destroyed 1944)
  • 1601 Johann Theodor Schnepf [Pastor of Derendingen ] (oil, signed "Gabriel Karg")
  • 1601 Prof. David Magirus (1566–1635) [lawyer] (oil, signed "Gabriel Karg") (Tübingen Professorengalerie)
  • 1604 Johannes Magirus (oil) (Tübingen professors' gallery)

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 210
  2. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 169

literature

  • Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
  • Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216

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personal data
SURNAME Karg, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH between 1630 and 1640
Place of death uncertain: Augsburg