Johann Christoph Lischka

Johann Christoph Lischka (Czech January Kristof Liska * to 1650 in Breslau , † 23. August 1712 in Leubus in Silesia ) was a painter of the Baroque .

Life

There are contradicting information about Johann Christoph Lischka's year of birth. He came from the Moravian noble family von Rottenwald. His father was an Imperial Austrian court agent in Breslau, but soon died. Lischka's mother Helena Regina married the painter Michael Willmann in 1662 . Lischka became a student of his stepfather and undertook study trips to Italy with his support from 1674 to 1680. Between 1689 and 1708 he worked in Prague and other places in Bohemia , where he was referred to as the "young Willmann". After Willmann's death in 1706, he took over his workshop in Leubus Monastery . His clients were mainly Cistercian monasteries and other church institutions. In addition to numerous large altar and wall paintings , he also made drawings as templates for copper engravings . After Lischka's death, his friend Wenzel Lorenz Reiner completed several works he had started.

Works in Bohemia

In Prague

• St. Niklas, Lesser Town : Altarpiece
• Kreuzherrenkirche : main altar painting stigmatization of St. Francis (1701)
• Ursuline Church ( Kostel svaté Voršily ): main altarpiece of St. Ursula
• Strahov Monastery ( Strahovský klášter ), monastery church: altar painting

In other places

• Doksan , monastery church: side altar painting of St. Augustine
• Münchengrätz , Annenkapelle: Altar painting St. Antonius , St. Francis , Holy Three Kings
• Ossegg , monastery church: main altar painting Beheading of St. Paul (1695)
• Plaß , Klosterkirche: ceiling fresco Trumph of the church over the pagans and altar painting St. Magdalena (1692)
• Sedletz Abbey, Abbey Church: Altar paintings of St. Vincent and St. Benedict

Works in Silesia

• Wrocław , Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross ( Kościół Św. Krzyża ) : Painting Finding the Holy Cross by St. Helena
• Grüssau , St. Joseph's Church ( Kościół bracki Św. Józefa ): wall paintings ( together with Michael Willmann and Michael Willmann the Younger )
• Heinrichau , Cistercian monastery church: side altar painting; Painting of Our Lady with God the Father and Holy Spirit and Angel of Annunciation
• Kamenz , Monastery Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ( Kościół Wniebowzięci NMP ): Painting Death of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica in the Coronation (1708)

Works in galleries

• Dresden: Achilles with the head of Pompey

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Liska, Johann Christoph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 243 ( digitized version ).
• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Czech lands. Vol. 2, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 469.
• Rudolf Müller:  Lischka, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 754 f.
• Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland: Silesia. Munich Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X .
• Knaur's Art Guide Czech Republic, ISBN 3-426-26609-1 .
• Michael Willmann and his group. Johann Christoph Liska, Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz and Johann Jakob Eybelwieser. Drawings. Salzburg Baroque Museum , Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-901925-26-0 . ( Writings of the Salzburg Baroque Museum . No. 26). Exhibition catalog. Bibliography pp. 45–48.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Christoph Lischka in the catalog of the German National Library