Johann Christoph Kayßer

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Johann Christoph Kayßer (* 1693 in Preßburg , † 1720 in Tübingen ) was a Württemberg painter . He lived as a painter in Tübingen from 1717.

Johann Wolfgang Jäger (1718, Tübingen Professorengalerie )
Michael Grass the Younger (1719, Tübingen Professorengalerie)

Life

Kayßer came to Stuttgart around 1710 , where he found work in the court chancellery. It is completely puzzling when Kayßer started painting. From 1717 he worked as a painter in Tübingen. The three university painters , Johann Emmanuel Schleich , Johann Gottfried Schreiber and Johann Glocker , who were then active in Tübingen, assumed that he was staying in Tübingen without authorization, and complained in a joint letter to the university senate that he was taking away the work that was already scarce in Tübingen . At that time, Kayßer might not have had an official permit to work in Tübingen, but it was an unofficial one, which he certainly owed to his earlier work in the Stuttgart office. As early as 1718, Kayßer received commissions for three portraits for the Tübingen Professorengalerie and in the following year for two more. In 1719 he was also formally granted the coveted academic citizenship of the University of Tübingen. It was obvious that he was favored over other Tübingen painters. However, Kayßer died unexpectedly the following year at the age of only 27.

His portraits of the Tübingen professors "show an almost intrusive physiognomic rendering in bright, modeling light and with a baroque effect that is more common than usual in the country."

More famous works

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Form of name after Silke Schöttle: "Mahler Glocker ..." , p. 22, which refers to the register of the University of Tübingen (MUT 31704). Werner Fleischhauer: Barock ... , p. 282. erroneously calls him "Johann Christian Keysser". With the abundance of processed material, butchers made mistakes from time to time and he was aware of it.
  2. ↑ a b c d Werner Fleischhauer: Barock ... , p. 282
  3. ↑ Silke Schöttle: "Mahler Glocker ..." , p. 16, citing the letter of July 7, 1717 (University Archives Tübingen, call number 117/815)

literature

  • Silke Schöttle: "Mahler Glocker informs in the Zaichnen". Traces of first drawing lessons in the 18th century . In: Artists for Students. Pictures of the university drawing teachers 1780–2012 , ed. by Evamarie Blattner, Wiebke Ratzeburg, Ernst Seidl, Stadtmuseum Tübingen 2012 (= Tübingen catalogs no. 94), ISBN 978-3-941818-13-2 , pp. 12-23
  • Werner Fleischhauer : Baroque in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1958 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg), p. 282

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personal data
SURNAME Kayßer, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keysser, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH 1720
Place of death Tübingen