Johan II van Enum

Johan II van enum. , Also in January of Enum, a Enum or Einum or A and January painter named (* well before 1580; † 1615 either in Varberg or after 1637) was a German painter who in Flensburg and Copenhagen worked was.

Johan van Enum was born the son of the painter of the same name, Johann I. van Enum , so that until his death, which is assumed to be in early 1594, the work of both artists cannot be differentiated and assigned. The father is proven in Flensburg by account books of the churches since 1573 and by the purchase of a house in the quarter of the Nikolaikirche since the beginning of the 1580s.

Johan II. Van Enum married into a respected family in Flensburg in 1592 and remained traceable through real estate until 1611. As a church jury and accountant, he left behind numerous written sources until around 1608. He worked for the Flensburg churches as a painter and gilder , especially in St. Marien (altar). The painting of the Nikolaikirche is said to have been his most important work, but it has not been preserved, so that one has to fall back on descriptions of literature. Further work on the company house and in the church of Garding is known from the period up to around 1604. At least during his time in Flensburg he worked closely with the carver Heinrich Ringerink .

After that, around 1607 he moved the focus of his work to Denmark, where he built the bedchamber of King Christian the Elder. IV. , An epitaph in Nyborg and four paintings in Frederiksborg Palace in 1612 . According to Philip Weilbach , he went to Varberg in what is now Sweden in 1615, the fortress of which was significantly expanded at the beginning of the 17th century by order of Christian IV. There you will find invoices for the year 1637 for painting and gilding work on the church belonging to the castle , which was also made by a son of the same name, Johann III. van Enum could have been made.

literature

• Harry Schmidt : Enum, Johann II von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 571 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974.
• Fritz Fuglsang:  from Enum, Johan. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 540 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Enum In: Weilbach's artist lexicon online (Danish)