Johann Christoph Storer

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Johann Christoph Storer (* around 1620 in Konstanz ; † 1671 ; also Johann Christoph Storrer ) was a German painter, etcher and draftsman for copper engravings in the 17th century who worked in Northern Italy for a long time.

Storer's work fell into the heyday of baroque sacred art after the end of the Thirty Years' War .

Life

Johann Christoph Storer was born as the son of the Constance painter Bartholomäus. He received a Jesuit school education. He then trained as a painter in Milan ; he probably completed an apprenticeship in Augsburg . After the death of his father, he stayed in Konstanz for a short time, but moved to Milan and encountered an idle Milanese art scene following the death of Federico Borromeo . He worked for a short time with Ercole Procaccini , the father of Giulio Cesare Procaccini , but quickly became self-employed. He received many orders as a painter through his contacts with Jesuit teachers, mainly in the branches of the order in the Upper German province. In 1652 he returned to Constance.

He gained fame through designs for festive decorations for the Spanish mansion (e.g. triumphal architecture for Maria Anna of Austria), some of which were distributed in reproduction engravings. Decorations for private palaces (e.g. Palazzo Terzi / Bergamo) and sacred furnishings (e.g. Certosa di Pavia, Rosary Chapel) followed quickly.

Works

literature

  • Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke: Visual Media in the Service of the Society of Jesus. Johann Christoph Storer (1620-1671) as a painter of the Catholic Reform , Schnell & Steiner Regensburg 2000 (habilitation thesis)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , "Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke: Visual Media in the Service of the Society of Jesus. Johann Christoph Storer (1620–1671) as a painter of the Catholic Reform, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2000" (Review by Gabriele Wimböck) "
  2. ↑ [2] , "Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke: Visual Media in the Service of the Society of Jesus. Johann Christoph Storer (1620–1671) as a painter of the Catholic Reform, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2000" (Review by Gabriele Wimböck) "
  3. ↑ [3] , "University of Birmingham: The Philological Museum"
  4. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 626.
personal data
SURNAME Storer, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storrer, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH 1671