Gottfried Libalt

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Gottfried Libalt (* 1610 or 1611 in Hamburg ; † May 1, 1673 in Vienna ) was a German painter.

Life

Ladder to Heaven in St. Petri

Gottfried Libalt worked as a Venetian-influenced Mannerist painter in Hamburg, Cracow and Vienna.

In Hamburg's main church Sankt Petri there are two oval paintings by him, the Adoration of the Christ Child and Jacob's Ladder to Heaven , which are dated to 1649. The adoration was sprayed with acid on August 27, 1977 by the well-known Hans-Joachim Bohlmann and damaged. Both pictures returned to St. Petri in October 2001 after extensive restoration.

In 1652 Libalt painted a view of Cracow. For the high altar of the palace chapel of Jaidhof in the Waldviertel , an altarpiece of a “Crucifixion with John and the two Marys” was created, which he signed with the inscription ( Gottfrid Libalt fecit 1655 ). More of his works are located in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria or can be found in archival archives there. Libalt is known for his Central European type of still life, which he also individualized for his clients from the Bohemian nobility such as Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria . A still life from 1660 is mentioned in the archduke's inventory, showing his portrait on a carpet-covered table, pieces of gilded armor and laurel branches.

literature

  • Libalt, G. In: Association for Hamburg History (Hrsg.) Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 146 ( dfg-viewer.de digitalisat).
  • Libalt, G. In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of the visual artists Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 80 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Victor Dirksen : Libait, Gottfried . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 182 .
  • Hana Seifertová: Two still lifes by Gottfried Libalt in the National Gallery in Prague. In: Acta Historiae Artium. 34, 1989, pp. 133-136.
  • Zdeněk Kazlepka: The painter Gottfried Libalt (1610–1673) between the genres: still life, portrait and landscape painting. In: Yearbook of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. 8/9, 2006/07, pp. 60-77.
  • Maike Bruhns : Libalt, Gottfried. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 268.

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Libalt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Schütte: Painting donated, saved, donated. In: The world. October 16, 2001 ( welt.de accessed June 9, 2018).
  2. ↑ Hans Tietze: The monuments of the political district Krems . With a booklet: The collections of Grafenegg Castle. A. Schroll, Vienna 1907, p. 54 and 194 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Alfred von Wurzbach: Libalt, Gottfried . In: Dutch Artist Lexicon; edited on the basis of archival research . tape 2 : L-Z . Halm and Goldmann, Vienna / Leipzig 1910, p. 41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive or uni-heidelberg.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Libalt, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1610 or 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1673
Place of death Vienna