Jakob Seisenegger
Jakob Seisenegger (* 1505 ; † 1567 in Linz ) was a German painter of the 16th century .
Life
Seisenegger's first documented appearance occurred in 1530, when he made a first portrait of his older brother Emperor Karl V during the Reichstag in Augsburg along with other paintings on behalf of Archduke Ferdinand I , a picture that is now considered lost.
In 1531 Seisenegger was appointed court painter by the now Roman-German King Ferdinand I , and after Ferdinand's coronation as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1558, he was raised to the nobility.
After working in various places in Central Europe for many years, he moved to Vienna for the first time in 1549 . From 1561 Seisenegger lived in Linz , where he finally died, plagued by increasing loss of his eyesight, towards the end of 1567.
One of his most important works is the painting Emperor Charles V with a dog, signed and dated 1532. The painting in oil on canvas exhibited today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna was created in Bologna and established Seisenegger's reputation as the creator of the Habsburg representational portrait in full figure. In doing so, he created a pattern that was often imitated and which, among others, was used by Titian for his own, more famous portrait of Charles V (today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid ).
In 1953 the Seiseneggergasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.
literature
- Ernst Birk: Jakob Seisenegger . In: Communications of the KK Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments , 1856.
- Kurt Holes: Jakob Seisenegger. Deutscher Kunst-Verlag, Munich 1962
- Sylvia Ferino-Pagden and Andreas Beyer (eds.): Tizian versus Seisenegger. The portraits of Charles V with a dog. A Holbein dispute. Turnhout (Brepols) 2005.
- Kurt Holes: Seisenegger, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 198 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seisenegger, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seisenegger, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1505 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1567 |
| Place of death | Linz |