Jobst Harrich

Jobst Harrich (baptized September 30, 1579 in Nuremberg ; buried April 11, 1617 there ) was a Nuremberg painter and copyist .

Life

Jobst Harrich was the son of the carpenter Caspar Harrich and his wife Barbara. From 1594 to 1597 Harrich did an apprenticeship with the painter Martin Beheim (not to be confused with the businessman Martin Behaim ). On November 20, 1604 he became a master. From 1609 to 1613 Harrich worked as a forerunner. He trained the apprentices Georg Püler, Sebald Fischer, Sebastian Schütz, Christoph Gärtner and Matthäus Mair. Harrich lived with his family on Bonersberg in today's Schildgasse 26 in Nuremberg. Harrichstrasse in his hometown was named after him.

family

His marriage to his wife Esther, whom he married in 1601, resulted in four sons and two daughters. His son Wolfgang Harrich also became a painter.

Works

In 1613 he took part in the wall paintings in the Great Town Hall in Nuremberg. He was considered a skillful copyist for Albrecht Dürer . In 1612 he was commissioned to copy Dürer's Paumgartner altar in the former St. Katharina's monastery church before the originals passed into the possession of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. The Frankfurt patrician Jakob Heller ordered an altar from Albrecht Dürer in 1507, the so-called Heller altar . It should be used to adorn the Frankfurt Dominican Church (preacher monastery) and to promote one's own soul. The church sold the main panel to Maximilian of Bavaria in 1614 . This main panel was destroyed in the fire in the Munich residence in 1729. Jobst Harrich had made a copy of the altar sheet “Mariae Himmelfahrt”. It is now in the Frankfurt Historical Museum .

One of his most famous paintings is "Christ and the Adulteress" which can be found in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

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  The Heller Altar

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  Christ and the adulteress

literature

• Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, craftsmen, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-11763-9 .
• Friedrich von Hagen: Harrich (Harrisch), Jobst . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 410 ( online ).
• Hildegart Schlee: Article about Jobst Harrich . In: Christoph von Imhoff (ed.): Famous Nuremberg residents from nine centuries . 2nd Edition. A. Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 1989, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 , p. 171 .