Johann Baptist Bachta

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Johann Baptist Bachta (born March 19, 1782 at Schönbornslust Palace near Kesselheim , Kurtrier , † May 18, 1856 in Koblenz , Rhine Province ) was a German history , landscape , portrait and miniature painter as well as fresco artist , engraver and etcher .

Life

View of the St. Kastor Basilica in Koblenz

Bachta was a son of the body lackey Johann Bachta from Koblenz. He received his first artistic training in the workshop of the Kurtrier court painter Januarius Zick , whose work he used as a guide and which he often copied. After training with Zick, he went to Frankfurt am Main , where he completed an apprenticeship with the painter Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern and became familiar with 17th century Dutch painting. After Morgenstern's death, he returned to Koblenz in 1819.

Monrepos Castle , 1826
Boat scene near Bingen , around 1840 (attributed to Bachta)

Bachta painted altarpieces that can be found in various churches on the Moselle . His landscape pictures, several of which he etched or engraved in steel, show views of the Rhine and Moselle regions. His portraits and miniatures were also popular. In 1820 he was commissioned to restore Zick's frescoes in the choir niches of the Florinskirche in Koblenz (“Wedding in Canaan” and “Washing of the feet”), which had been damaged in a storm in 1790. Among other things, he offered paintings and the painting of church and school flags in a newspaper advertisement. From 1834 he was responsible for the administration and cataloging of the painting collection of the late Koblenz pastor and art patron Joseph Gregor Lang .

Bachta was related to the Koblenz painter Daniel Dienz (1813–1888). He worked mainly in Koblenz. His son Jacob Bachta studied after the first training in his father's studio at the Dusseldorf Art Academy in Peter Cornelius . The daughter Eva Bachta was considered a skilled flower painter. Both worked in Koblenz.

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  • Instructions for the proportion and anatomy of the human body, for budding draftsmen, with 3 coppers . Hölscher, Koblenz 1821.

Works (selection)

  • “Cupid with arrow and quiver”, around 1800; Grisaille, oil on canvas, 96 × 69.4 cm; probably a copy after Januarius Zick (art dealer).
  • "Soldiers group" (loot trade in e. Interior; several people), 1806; Oil on panel, 45.9 × 46.8 cm; Oldenburg, State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Inv.Nr. 15,730.
  • "Moselle landscape with a castle-like house in front and a town in the middle distance", 1819; Oil on canvas, 37 × 52 cm, signed: “J. Bachta f. In Coblenz 1819 “: Auction Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne (catalog number 305), November 4, 1930, No. 1, p. 2.
  • “Maria Laach Monastery with the Laacher See in the background”, 1819; Oil on canvas, 37 × 52 cm, signed: “J. Bachta f. in Coblenz 1819 “: Auction Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne (catalog number 305), November 4, 1930, No. 2, p. 2.
  • “The Rhine near Cologne, left in front the Bayenturm”, 1819; Oil on canvas, 64 × 80 cm, signed on the quay wall on the left: “J. Bachta f. In Coblenz 1819 “: Auction Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne (catalog number 305), November 4, 1930, no. 3, p. 2.
  • "Bad Ems an der Lahn and the four-tower house", 1819; Oil on metal, 24.5 × 34 cm: Rheinromantik Bonn Collection.
  • "Bad Ems an der Lahn and the four-tower house", 1819; Oil, 37 × 52 cm; signed: “J. Bachta f. in Coblenz 1819 “: Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden.
  • "Rüdesheim am Rhein, ruins of the Brömserburg with a view of Bingen", around 1820; Watercolor.
  • Two “Views of Koblenz”, oil on wood, each 30.5 × 40.5 cm (art dealer).
  • "View of Koblenz", 1822; Oil on wood, 21 × 50 cm, signed: “J. Bachta in Coblenz 1822 “: Kollerwest Zurich auction, March / April 2017, No. 6154: Koblenz, City Archives.
  • “View of Koblenz with the ship bridge”, steel engraving, around 1825.
  • “Picture clock with a view of the Maria Laach Monastery”, 1826; Oil / canvas, 56 × 69.5 cm. Rheinromantik Bonn Collection. Illustration: Matthias Winzen: The early industrial need for a home. The painterly feeling of a sense of home . In: Sigrid Ruby, Barbara Krug-Richter, Amalia Barboza (eds.): Negotiating your home? Art and cultural studies approaches . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 2020, pp. 20-27; Fig. 2.
  • “View of Rheinbrettbach”, 1835; Oil on canvas, 49.5 × 78.5 cm (art trade).
  • “View from the height of Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, in the foreground Paffendorf with the parish church”, 1840; Oil on canvas, 69 × 49 cm; signed / date: Auction 119, Michael Zeller, Lindau, Nov. 2013, No. 190, SP 1900 / ZP 9400 Euro.
  • “Bank of the Rhine near Urmitz with the parish church of St. Georg”, 1848; Oil on panel, 33 × 43 cm (image: online).
  • Painting for the furnishing of the new parish church in Hambuch , 1849.
  • “View from Weißenthurm to Neuwied”, oil on wood, 32 × 55 cm: Koblenz, Middle Rhine Museum, inventory no. M986.
  • "View of the city of Bacharach with the ruins of St. Werner's Church"; Oil on zinc sheet.

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Nagler (ed.): New general artist lexicon . First volume: A - Boe . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 12.
  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer's Lexicon of the now living authors . Addendum. 26. Volume A and B. Copenhagen 1838, pp. 118, 149.Bachta (Johann) zu Coblenz ?, No. 476.
  • J. Meyer (Ed.): The great Conversatins-Lexicon (...) . Fourth volume. Second division. Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen 1844, p. 1087.
  • Address book of the city of Coblenz per 1852 , p. 95: Bachta, Johann, Maler; Bachta, Jakob, painter: s. Plan - (old no.) 18; dto, 1863: Bachta, Eva, painter Altenhof 3; dto. 1868: Bachta, Eva, painter Entenpfuhl 4.
  • Hans Vollmer : Bachta, Johann . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 320 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Bernd Brauksiepe, Anton Neugebauer: 250 painters in Rhineland-Palatinate 1450–1950 . Rhineland Palatinate Ministry 1986, p. 13.
  • Heinz Peters, Rolf Peters: 140 Years Parish Church Müllenbach 1855–195 5. Cochem 1995, pp. 53–54.
  • Elisabeth Dühr, Dorothée Henschel: Rough Beauty. Eifel and Ardennes in the eyes of artists . Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Simeonsstift Trier 2010. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010.
  • Matthias Winzen: The early industrial need for a home. The painterly feeling of a sense of home . In: Sigrid Ruby, Barbara Krug-Richter, Amalia Barboza (eds.): Negotiating your home? Art and cultural studies approaches . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 2020, pp. 20-27; Fig. 2: Johann Baptist Bachta: "Picture clock with view of the Maria Laach monastery", 1826; Oil / canvas, 56 × 69.5 cm. Rheinromantik Bonn Collection.

Web links

Commons : Johann Bachta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Of the high archbishopric and electorate Trier, court-state and state calendar for the year after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's gracious birth MDCCLXXIX. (...) including the solemn church and court Gallatäge (...) also senior and subordinate officials of the high archbishopric, along with several appendices. (...). Koblenz, printed in the electoral court printer of the JBKrabben., P. 86: Churfürstliche Leiblaquayen. (...) Johann Bachta
  2. ^ City Museum Trier (Ed.): Raue Schönheit. Eifel and Ardennes in the eyes of artists . Schnell and Steiner, Trier 2010, p. 42
  3. ↑ Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber: Instructions on the most useful and enjoyable way to travel the Rhine from Schaffhausen to Holland (...). Joseph Engelmann, Heidelberg, p. 88
  4. ↑ Public Gazette No. 6, Coblenz, February 14, 1840, Supplement to No. 7 of the Official Journal: “[64] Recommended to make church and school flags or paintings in any size and shape, painted on silk or canvas surrender. Joh. Bachta. Painter in Coblenz. "
  5. ^ Britta Klöpfer: Herm Dienz (1881–1980). (...). Dissertation. Bonn 2001, p. 17
  6. ^ Address book for the city of Coblenz per 1852, 1863, 1868
  7. ^ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living authors . Addendum. 26. Volume A and B. Copenhagen 1838, pp. 118, 149.Bachta (Johann) zu Coblenz ?, No. 476.
  8. ↑ Repertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM), Germany Office ( https://www.ridim-deutschland.de )
  9. ↑ Illustration in the virtual bridge courtyard museum portal
  10. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel. Translated from the Latin (...) by Georg Bärsch. Jakob Anton Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1852, p. 273
  11. ^ Museum catalog Koblenz 1999, p. 18, no. 18, illustration p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Bachta, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history, landscape, portrait and miniature painters and erasers
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH near Kesselheim , Kurtrier
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1856
Place of death Koblenz , Rhine Province