Hans Karg (painter)

Hans Karg (actually Johannes Karg ; called Parsimonius from Augsburg ; * 1551 in Leipheim ; † approx. 1610 ) was a Swabian painter who was brought to Stuttgart in connection with the work on the new Lusthaus . He is the father of the painter Gabriel Karg .

Life

Hans Karg was a son of the Protestant theologian and future Hirsau abbot Johannes Parsimonius and his first wife Maria. He grew up in Augsburg , his father's hometown, and was a trainee with a painter as early as 1559, and in 1572 he became a master painter in Augsburg. In 1573 he copied a small-format mural from the period 1524–34 on behalf of his father to complement his father's history of the Hirsau monastery. Hans Karg worked in Ulm for a while before moving to Stuttgart in 1586 after being promised a job at court. Apparently he must have fled Augsburg beforehand, because his stay in Ulm was described as "underschloef" [shelter].

Since 1588 he received orders from Duke Ludwig von Württemberg to paint coats of arms , pastures and family trees . Karg was also used by the duke as a photo reporter. He was sent to weddings to later paint paintings based on drawings made there. In 1591 he was at a Fugger wedding in Augsburg and the following year at the wedding of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden in Durlach . In 1590/91 he also painted histories for Duchess Ursula .

From 1591 Hans Karg belonged to the group of painters who were involved in the painting of the new pleasure house under the direction of Hans Steiner . The biggest task there was the painting of the 1196 m² large and 14 m high ballroom. Several hunting scenes were depicted on the ceiling, of which Hans Karg took over the Schorndorfer Forest and the Reichenberger Forest with a wolf hunt. He then designed the Uracher Forest together with Andreas Herneisen and carried it out together with Hans Steiner. For this work, Hans Karg brought his sons, of whom only Gabriel is known, and a very skilled journeyman from Nuremberg.

After completing the work on the new pleasure house, he received orders again to take pictures of celebrations (e.g. a celebration in the zoo in 1599). There were also portraits of animals: B. 1595/96 depictions of a very special, green pike, which were sent to eleven princes so that they could express their opinion, and in 1600/01 depictions of the horses. But he also did not refuse simple painting work: in 1591/92 he painted the shutters of the municipal brickworks.

Hans Karg was a widower or had just become a widower during his stay in Stuttgart, because he married for the second time in 1591/92 and received 4 fl as a gift from the ducal treasury on this occasion  . He worked in Stuttgart until 1601/02. After that, maybe it left for Augsburg.

In Steiner's opinion, Karg was very familiar with the biblical stories, but understood "nothing about the Waidwerckh" and did not paint much on it, but left it to his journeymen. The only surviving work by him is a weak pedigree -Miniature from 1572, which hardly says something about his character style.

Received works

• 1572 a miniature of the archives

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 169
2. ↑ Hans Rott: Sources and Research ... , p. 41
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans Rott: Sources and research ... , p. 289
4. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 96
5. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 182
6. ↑ The group also included Andreas Herneisen , Hans Philipp Gretter , Hans Dorn and Jacob Züberlin and Wendel Dietterlin - all of them with their journeymen and helpers.
7. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , pp. 59 and 164
8. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The paintings in the Stuttgart Lusthaus , p. 320
9. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 384
10. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The paintings in the Stuttgart Lusthaus , p. 322
11. ^ Heinrich Geissler: draftsman ... , p. 100
12. ↑ Illustration in: H. Buchheit: From the family book of Abel Prasch . In: Old Art Treasures from Bavaria , ed. By H. Wilm, Festschrift for the 70th anniversary of the Münchner Altertumsverein, 1934, p. 14

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
• Heinrich Geissler : draftsman at the Württemberg court around 1600 . In: “Yearbook of the State Art Collections in Baden-Württemberg”, Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1969, pp. 79–126
• Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century. II, Old Swabia and Imperial Cities , Stuttgart: Strecker and Schröder 1934
• H. Buchheit: From the family book of Abel Prasch . In: H. Wilm (ed.): Old art treasures from Bavaria. Festschrift for the 70th anniversary of the Munich Antiquities Association , 1934
• Werner Fleischhauer: The paintings in the Stuttgart Lusthaus . In: Württemberg past , commemorative publication of the Württemberg history and antiquity association for the Stuttgart conference of the entire association of German history and antiquity associations in September 1932, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1932, pp. 305–333