Johann Christoph Frisch

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Johann Christoph Frisch (born February 9, 1738 in Berlin ; † February 28, 1815 there ) was a Berlin court painter , draftsman and etcher under Friedrich II.

Life

The son of the copper engraver Ferdinand Helreich Frisch (1707–1758) and grandson of the linguist and natural scientist Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666–1743) was first taught by his father, later he was a student of the history painter Christian Bernhard Rode and then continued his autodidactic education u. a. by copying the pictures in the Sanssouci Palace . From 1765 to 1768 he undertook a study trip to Rome , sponsored by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens and financially supported by Frederick II , where he was inspired by the works of Raffael , Annibale Carracci and Guido Reni , and to Provence . In 1774 he created the ceiling painting Venus with her entourage in the Jasper Hall of the New Chambers .

From 1770 Frisch was a member, 1786 rector, 1801 vice director and from 1805 director of the Berlin Academy of Arts , where he taught “practical painting”. He was a well-known portrait and history painter, and he was an art collector. He lived in Heidereuter Gasse near the Old Synagogue . He grew the first mulberry trees in his garden in front of the Spandauer Tor .

Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia , 1797, German Historical Museum Berlin

The most widespread and authoritative portrait of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was made by him in 1786 . He also made a portrait of the well-known Berlin Chasan and community secretary Aaron Beer and more than 30 other portraits of famous people. In 1787 he wrote his famous work " Schwerin's Death in the Battle of Prague on May 6, 1757" . He created wall and ceiling paintings in the Berlin City Palace (1789), in the Dutch Palace (before 1779), in the New Palais (1768 and around 1795), in the Jasper Hall in the New Chambers in the Park of Sanssouci (1774), in the Marble Palace (1790) and in Schloss Pfaueninsel (around 1796).

Frisch finally completed the work on two extensive zoological copper panels on insects and birds in Germany, which his grandfather had once started and his father had continued.

Especially in his later works, Frisch was under the influence of English painting and classicism . His favorite subjects included mythological and allegorical scenes, historical paintings, motifs from the poems of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Christoph Martin Wieland .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Christoph Frisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottlieb Puhlmann, Götz Eckardt (Ed.): A Potsdam painter in Rome. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 237 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Johann Georg Prince of Hohenzollern: Friedrich the Great. Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Verlag Hirmer, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7774-5910-0 , p. 396 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Hahn, Irmtraut Schmid : Letters to Goethe . Complete edition in regest form. Volume 7, part 2. Böhlau, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-7400-1208-0 , p. 47 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Hans-Hellmut Allers: Goethe and Berlin . Verlag Arno Spitz, Berlin 1999, p. 43 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift . Verlag Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1970, p. 35 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Kärin Nickelsen: "On employera les meilleurs engraver pour les Figures". Draftsman and engraver of the Berlin Academy of Sciences 1700–1806 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 207 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Frisch, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian court painter in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1815
Place of death Berlin