Georg Weikert
Georg Weikert (also Johann Georg Weikert , * 1743 or 1745 in Vienna , † February 2, 1799 in Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter of the late Baroque .
life and work
Weikert worked as a student of the famous court painter Martin van Meytens at the Viennese court of the Habsburgs , where he made portraits of, among others, Empress Maria Theresa , Emperor Joseph II , Queen Kaoline of Naples , Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany and many other members of the Viennese nobility. In February 1766 and January 1777 Weikert received payments for four portraits, which he sent to the Bishop of Brixen , Leopold von Spaur . Weikert also received payment for portraits in 1777, which he made for the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . He was friends with the democrats Andreas Riedel and Franz Hebenstreit , arrested as Jacobins and traitors to the state in 1794 , whom he also portrayed. Nemo was the name of the portrait by Andreas Riedel, Homo that of Franz Hebenstreit. After their arrest, the pictures that were hanging in Andreas Riedel's salon disappeared.
Museum reception
The portraits by the hand of Georg Weikert are today for the most part in the state property of the Republic of Austria and its collections, such as the Austrian Gallery Belvedere , the Museum of Art History and the Museum of Military History . Also located in the castle Greillenstein , the Schönbrunn Palace and the Hofburg paintings Weikerts.
Works (excerpt)
- Portrait of Emperor Joseph II , oil on canvas, undated, 150 × 121 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.
- Portrait of the Hermengilde Liechtenstein , oil on canvas, 1784, 235 × 164 cm, Esterházy Castle Private Foundation , Eisenstadt
- Celebration on the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Archduke Joseph and Maria Josepha of Bavaria , 1765, oil on canvas, 183 × 145 cm, Versailles Palace
- Portrait of Elizabeth Waldstein-Wartenberg , 1789, oil on canvas, 225 × 149 cm, Hungarian National Museum , Budapest
- Portrait Field Marshal Andreas Hadik von Futak , 1783, oil on canvas, Andreas Hadik von Futak, Budapest
- Il Parnaso confuso (performance of the Serenata of the same name by Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1765), 1778, oil on canvas, 220 × 212 cm, Versailles Palace
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Weichart, Johann Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, p. 250 ( digital copy ).
- Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Visual Artists from Antiquity to the Present , Volume 35, Leipzig, 1942.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Volume 35 , Leipzig, 1942, p. 283
- ↑ Alexander Emanuely : Outcome: Franz Hebenstreit (1747-1795). Silhouettes of the Viennese democrats. 1794. Encyclopedia of Viennese Knowledge, Portraits, Volume II, Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-902416-42-1 , pp. 100f
- ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790 . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , p. 33
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weikert, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weikert, Johann Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian portrait painter of the late Baroque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1743 or 1745 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1799 |
| Place of death | Vienna |