Johann Daniel Bager
Johann Daniel Bager (* 1734 in Wiesbaden ; † 1815 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German artist .
Bager “was a portrait, genre, landscape and fruit painter”, who was also known as an etcher. He came from a widespread Wiesbaden artist family, from which Baumeister also emerged. He emigrated to Frankfurt, where, among other things, he worked as a teacher and became known as a “Goethe painter”. The poet Goethe referred to Bager in his autobiography From my life. Poetry and Truth as one of the artists who worked for his father Johann Caspar Goethe and the French royal lieutenant Count Thoranc . The Frankfurt art collector, and pioneer of art history Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen called Bager in a treatise on the artists of Frankfurt as a painter, whose "vorzüglichstes talent may stand in portraits" and "Bager grinds good very hardworking fruit pieces, often as beautiful as de Heem have failed ". These were often counterparts that were commissioned to match the interior design of an apartment.
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Wiesbaden, Früchtestück , undated, oil / canvas. - 36 × 40 cm, inv. No .: M 73, piece of fruit , undated, oil / canvas. - 36 × 40 cm, inv. No .: M 74
- ^ Friedrich Gwinner: Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main from the thirteenth century to the opening of the Städel'schen Kunstinstitut. Frankfurt 1862, 384 ff
- ↑ for example the round church of Wiesbaden-Naurod was built in 1730 by Johann Jakob Bager.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bager, Johann Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1815 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |