Johann Georg Heinsch

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Johann Georg Heinsch (also: Johann Georg Heintsch ; Czech: Jan Jiří Heinsch ; * probably 1647 in Glatz , County Glatz ; † September 9, 1712 in Prague ) was a German-Bohemian Baroque painter.

Life

Johann Georg Heinsch was the son of the Glatzer royal clerk and alder Joachim Franz Heinsch. His year of birth 1647 is not documented. There is also a lack of reliable data on his educational path. There are very contradicting information about his résumé. Since 1678 he was a prolific, wealthy artist based in Prague, where he had acquired citizenship. After the death of his first wife, he entered the barefoot Augustinian monastery in Bělá pod Bezdězem in 1702 , which he left before the end of the novitiate . His second wife, whom he married in 1704, was a bourgeois daughter.

His artistic role model is said to have been the famous baroque painter Karl Skreta . Heinsch painted numerous altarpieces in the conventional style, mainly for Prague churches. Most of the clients were the monasteries of the Jesuits , the Lords of the Cross and the Augustinians . Many of his works were in monastery churches that were repealed during the Josephine reforms . Some of these paintings are considered lost, others are still preserved in museums, e.g. B. in the National Gallery in Prague and in the City Galleries of Raudnitz and Velvary .

Works in churches

Prague

  • St. Ignatius Church ( Kostel sv. Ignáce ): high altar painting of St. Ignatius with the Holy Trinity (1687); Translation of St. Wenceslas (1692)
  • St. Apollinaris ; Karlshofer Madonna 'Mater Verbi Incarnati' (1697)
  • Church of St. Henry and Kunigunde (Prague) ( Kostel svatého Jindřicha ): St. Henry and St. Kunigunde (1698)
  • St. Jakob ( Kostel svatého Jakuba ): Altar painting of the Holy Tribe (1702)
  • Teynkirche : St. Joseph with the baby Jesus (1685)
  • Kreuzherrenkirche : Blessed Agnes of Bohemia (after 1687)
  • George's Church: Assumption of Mary (1688)
  • Jesuit Church St. Salvator : St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier (1710)

Outside of Prague

  • Bohemian Leipa , Church of All Saints: Altar painting
  • Brno , St. Thomas Church: St. Kümmernis (1687)
  • Chloumek u Luže, Jesuit Church: Assumption of Mary and seven other pictures
  • Klattau , Jesuit Church St. Ignatius: Painting of the side altars
  • Nový Bydžov , deanery church: Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1683)
  • St. Johann under the rock : Altar painting "The encounter between John the Baptist and St. Ivan" (1695)
  • Hungarian Hradisch , Jesuit Church: St. Francis Xavier baptizing a Moorish prince (1689)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Heinsch, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heintsch, Johann Georg; Heinsch, Jan Jiří; Haimsch, Johann Georg; Heimsch, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Glatz , County Glatz
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1712
Place of death Prague