Court artist

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The court artist is the type of artist who has belonged to the court since the Renaissance at the imperial, royal, princely and episcopal courts as servants with privileged status (often with the rank of valet ). As an architect , painter , musician or poet , he fulfilled the representational needs of his master.

The "freedom of the court" relieved the artist of the often still existing urban guild compulsory . In addition to his direct artistic activities, he was entrusted with a variety of other services (e.g. preparation and equipment for parties, educational tasks, library management, travel companions). As a rule, a smaller number of servants were subordinate to him. Analogous to the courtyards, wealthy cities, primarily in northern Italy, also employed artists. For example, the Republic of Venice appointed Giovanni Bellini as the Republic's official painter in 1483. In some Upper German cities there was also the status of "city painter" with civil rights and honorary pay.

The art historian Martin Warnke sees the court artist as an early form of the modern and autonomous artist. "Only with the disappearance of the courtyards does the artist become an outsider in society".

Famous court artists

Visual arts

music

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giorgio Vasari : The life of Bellini and Mantegna . Wagenbach, Berlin 2010, p. 125.
  2. ↑ Walther Müller-Jentsch : The art in society . 2nd Edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Martin Warnke: The court artist. On the early history of the modern artist . 2nd Edition. DuMont, Cologne 1996, p. 12.

literature

  • Alessandro Conti: The Artist's Way. From craftsman to virtuoso , Wagenbach, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8031-2328-3 (= Wagenbach's paperback , vol. 328)
  • Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: Courtyards, monasteries and cities. Art and culture in Central Europe. 1450–1800 , DuMont, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7701-3924-0 .
  • Dagmar Eichberger, Philippe Lorentz, Andreas Tacke (Ed. / Ed.): The Artist between Court and City (1300–1600) / L'artiste entre la Cour et la Ville / The artist between court and city. Petersberg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7319-0391-8
  • Jens Fachbach: Court artist and court craftsman at the court of the Electorate of Trier in Koblenz / Ehrenbreitstein 1629-1794. Study, handbook, sources (= artifex. Sources and Studies in the Social History of Artists / Sources and Studies in the Social History of the Artist. Hrsg. Von / Ed. By Andreas Tacke). 2 vols., Petersberg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7319-0389-5
  • Herbert Haupt: The handicrafts freed from court and court in baroque Vienna 1620 to 1770. A manual , Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 (= research and contributions to Viennese urban history , vol. 46; among others with Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , the architecture teacher of the future emperor Joseph I. ).
  • Katrin Pöhnert: court craftsman in Weimar and Jena (1770-1830). A privileged stand between the courtyard and the city. Jena 2014 ISBN 978-3-9815368-4-3
  • Andreas Tacke, Jens Fachbach, Matthias Müller (eds.): Court artists and court craftsmen in German-speaking residential cities of the premodern . Petersberg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7319-0390-1
  • Martin Warnke : The court artist. On the early history of the modern artist , 2nd revised edition. DuMont, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-3847-3 .

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