Johann Christoph Neyffer

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Johann Christoph Neyffer (mostly shortened to J. Christoph Neyffer or Christoph Neyffer , * 1582 in Herrenberg , † 1632 in Tübingen ) was a Württemberg painter and draftsman who lived in Tübingen and worked as a "college painter".

Life

Neyffer had lived in Tübingen since 1606 at the latest, where he made a series of drawings that illustrated the buildings, interiors, gardens and life in the ducal educational institution for knights Collegium illustrious , which recently got a new building. Twelve drawings were made into etchings by the goldsmith Ludwig Ditzinger from Reutlingen and appeared around 1607 in the font of the court master Hans Joachim von Grünthal .

Neyffer was married to a daughter of the Stuttgart court painter Sebastian Ramminger .

As a “college painter”, Neyffer painted numerous portraits, all of which have been lost. His drawings by Collegium are artistically irrelevant, but interesting from a cultural and historical perspective.

More famous works

  • 1606 Series of drawings by Collegium Illustre, which appeared around 1607 as etchings by Ludwig Ditzinger in the font “Illustrissimi Wirtembergici Ducalis Novii Colegii… delineatio”

  • Building with a garden

  • Lecture hall

  • Library

  • Dining room

  • Combat class

  • Tennis game

  • Practice area north of the city (view from the north)

  • Practice area north of the city (view from the southwest)

  • Practice area north of the city

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 211
  2. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 391

literature

  • Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
  • Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216
  • August Willburger: The Collegium illustrious zu Tübingen , Tübingen: Verlag des Bürgererverein 1912

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personal data
SURNAME Neyffer, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neyffer, J. Christoph; Neyffer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrenberg
DATE OF DEATH 1632
Place of death Tübingen