Johann Christoph Herrlein

Johann Christoph Herrlein (born October 23, 1760 in Fulda , † after 1790) was a German painter . He came from the Herrlein family of painters .

Johann Andreas Herrlein: The painter's children (left presumably Johann Christoph Herrlein), after 1765

Life

Johann Christoph Herrlein received his training in the workshop of his father Johann Andreas Herrlein in Fulda. According to the custom at the time, he should have completed his apprenticeship around 17 years of age, i.e. around 1777. He then initially worked as a painter in Fulda. After his marriage in 1782 to Anna Barbara Dauber, a daughter of the hunter Heinrich Dauer in Sandberg near Schwarzbach (Rhön) , little gentleman became a hunter in Schwarzbach (Rhön). In the church register there, he is mentioned in the marriage entry as a hunter and painter , so he seems to have practiced both professions at the same time. After his marriage failed, he went to Vienna to see his brother Johann Leonhard Herrlein, who lived there .

Its sequence of six hunting scenes, created around 1790, is of particular cultural and historical importance and allows interesting conclusions to be drawn about the type of Fulda hunt in the late 18th century.

Works

• Start of the discontinued hunt for red deer , painting, around 1790, Bischöfliches Palais, Fulda
• Ceased hunting for deer , painting, around 1790, Bischöfliches Palais, Fulda
• Rest after the hunt , painting, around 1790, Bischöfliches Palais, Fulda
• Individual hunt for wild boar , painting, around 1790, Bischöfliches Palais, Fulda
• Hare and fox hunt , painting, around 1790, Bischöfliches Palais, Fulda
• Hunt for partridges , painting, around 1790, Bischöfliches Palais, Fulda

literature

• Article Johann Christoph Herrlein . In: Johann Andreas Herrlein and baroque painting in Fulda . Exhibition catalog Vonderau-Museum Fulda, 1991, ISBN 3-7900-0208-9 , p. 209 f.
• Ferdinand Zwenger : Johann Andreas Herrlein . in: Buchonia . III, 2 (1881), No. 11 ( digitized version ).
• Heidrun Ludwig: The paintings of the 18th century in the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt: inventory catalog (= catalogs of the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt. 18). Ed. Minerva, Eurasburg 1997, ISBN 3-932353-11-0 , p. 80.