Johann Balthasar Frankart
Johann Balthasar Frankart (also Frankhart, * 1712 in Hamburg ; † 1743 during a trip to the Baltic Sea) was a German portrait painter who worked in Saint Petersburg .
Frankart, Francart, Francard or Frankhart became a pupil of the portrait painter Hans Hinrich Rundt . After graduating, he almost exclusively painted portraits.
From 1737 he lived in Saint Petersburg and worked as a portrait painter for the Petersburg nobility. During his six-year stay in the Russian capital, he fell ill with tuberculosis and died on the journey home from where he wanted to go to Italy.
literature
- Francard. In: Directory of the most distinguished artists in Russia. In: Johann Georg Meusel : Miscellanous artistic contents. Second piece, Eilfter Heft, Verlag der Keyser Buchhandlung, Erfurt 1782, p. 262 ( digitized version ).
- Frankhart. In: Georg Ludwig Eckhardt : Hamburgische Künstler Nachrichten , supplements to Füssli's Künstlerlexicon (with the help of Johannes Michael Speckter ), LF Gauß, Hamburg 1794, p. 16 ( digitized version ).
- Frankhart. In: Hans Heinrich Füssli : General Artist Lexicon , Zweyter Part, which contains the continuation and addition of the first. Second section: D - F , Orell, Füeßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1806, p. 386 ( digitized version ).
- Frankhart, P. In: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , edited by the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe 1854, p. 76 ( digitized version ).
- Frankhart (Francard), P. In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 40 ( digitized ).
- Frankhart, P. In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 382 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Frankhart (Francard), P. In: The new Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 132.
Web links
Commons : Johann Balthasar Frankart - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the literature around 1710, on the Net also in 1711. According to hermitagemuseum.org 1711/1712. 1712 is not used.
- ↑ Francart. In: Karl Stählin : From the papers of Jacob von Stählin. Brandstetter, 1926
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frankart, Johann Balthasar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frankhart, Johann Balthasar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait painter in Saint Petersburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1712 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1743 |
| Place of death | Baltic Sea |