Johann Baptist Ruel

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Johann Baptist Ruel , also de Ruel and Johann Baptist de Rüll (* around 1634 in Antwerp , † June 20, 1685 in Würzburg ) was a Flemish portrait painter and designer of altarpieces . It can be assigned to the high baroque .

Life

JBRuel, portrait of Karl I. Ludwig in the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg

Johann Baptist Ruel was introduced as a singer at the court of the Elector of Mainz Johann Philipp von Schönborn and was instructed in painting by Jan Thomas van Ieperen . A portrait of the elector is in the Museum for Franconia , Würzburg, inv. P. 49335 He became known and received further commissions from the spiritual environment, including from Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck and Peter Philipp von Dernbach . A portrait of Prince-Bishop Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck hangs in the New Residence in Bamberg . Portraits for Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid , Count Palatine Karl I. Ludwig and Liselotte von der Pfalz were created in Mainz . He moved to Würzburg, where he also died. There the alleged “rival” Oswald Onghers created numerous altarpieces and other portraits. A 1661 by in created oil painting St. Magdalena burned in the Würzburg Cathedral in March 1945 , as did the ordeal of St. Elisabeth in the cathedral and an altar panel in the Würzburg Carmelite Church of St. Joseph and St. Maria Magdalena . In the Museum für Franken, however, the painting Portrait of an Unknown Girl, attributed to Ruel, from around 1680 is preserved . Several altar leaves in the Heilig-Kreuz chapel in Eibelstadt , an altarpiece in St. Michael (Lörzweiler) and the altarpiece in the Antonius chapel (1667) in the Capuchin monastery in Ochsenfurt are from Ruel. He also created an altarpiece in the Sebastianskirche in Sulzfeld am Main. There are different details about the year of his death. 1715 is also mentioned as a possible year of death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ruel, Johann Baptist in: Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie, Walter de Gruyter, 2005, p. 1664
  2. ↑ Michael Bryan: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. Biographical and Critical . Kenniikat Press, Port Washington 1964 (reprint of the London edition 1886/89), p. 400.
  3. ↑ Joachim von Sandrart : L'Academia Todesca. della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura: Or Teutsche Academie der Edel Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste. Vol. 2.3. Nuremberg, 1679. ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Elector Johann Philipp von Schönborn, Archbishop of Mainz in the middle of the 17th century, oil on canvas, 99 × 70 cm
  5. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 625 f.
personal data
SURNAME Ruel, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Ruel, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1685
Place of death Wurzburg