Johann Adam Schöpf

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Adam Schöpf (* 1702 in Stadtamhof at Regensburg ; † 10. January 1772 in Egenburg ) was a painter of the Baroque .

Fresco in the Gerlachus Church, Houthem-Sint Gerlach (Netherlands)

Life

Johann Adam Schöpf was a son of the cabinet maker and sculptor Jakob Schöpf . After an apprenticeship with the Straubing painter Joseph Anton Merz, he went to Prague, where he has been documented since 1724. On June 2, 1726 he made a payment to the Old Town Painters' Brotherhood, which awarded him the title of master in the same year. On July 7, 1729, he became a citizen of Prague's Old Town . The painter Jan Karel Kovář was one of his Prague students . On April 8, 1742, Schöpf was expelled from Prague for political reasons, and he is said to have been accused of supporting the claims to the throne of the Bavarian Elector Karl Albrecht . Afterwards he stayed mostly in Munich. The Wittelsbach prince-bishop Clemens August , for whom he created numerous works for the penal area of Kurköln , appointed him court painter. In old age Schöpf moved to Egenburg, where his son Ignaz was pastor. Schöpf died there at the age of 70. His son Johann Nepomuk Schöpf was also a well-known painter and etcher.

Works (selection)

In Bohemia

As a court painter from the Electorate of Cologne

In Bavaria

  • Gotteszell , Cistercian collegiate church : paintings on the nave walls and pilasters (1729, together with Josef Anton Merz )
  • Straubing
    • Parish Church of St. Jakob: Wall and ceiling paintings of the Katharinen, Aloysius and Brotherhood chapels, in the chapel wreath frescoes with scenes from the life of Jesus
    • Chapel in the Ducal Palace : two side altar leaves
    • Former Franciscan monastery: Altarpiece "Flight into Egypt" ( lost )
  • Pfaffenmünster Monastery : ceiling paintings and two murals in the former collegiate church of St. Tiburtius ( attribution )
  • Mallersdorf Abbey : Choir ceiling painting (1747)
  • Sünching , Sünching Castle: Staircase fresco (1760)
  • Beuern , parish church St. Michael: fresco of the angel's fall, surrounded by brocade and cassette painting (1759)
  • Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn , St. Michael parish church: ceiling painting "Sacrifice of the Old Covenant" and "Adoration of God the Father" in the choir, "Fall of Hell" in the nave (1765–1772; together with son Johann Nepomuk)
  • Chapel of St. Johann Nepomuk in Geiselbullach : ceiling paintings

Individual paintings and etchings are in museums and collections.

  • Augustusburg, Brühl (staircase, ceiling fresco by Carlo Carlone )

  • Holy stairs, Bonn

  • Gerlachus Church, Houthem

  • Clemenskirche, Münster

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Adam Schöpf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Schöpf, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadtamhof
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1772
Place of death Egenburg , today part of Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn