Johann David Passavant
Johann David Passavant (born September 18, 1787 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 17, 1861 there ) was a German painter and art historian .
Passavant stayed in Paris between 1809 and 1813 and went to Italy for the first time in 1813. In Rome he was from the art-loving Baron Karl Friedrich von Rumohr with Florentine made known painting. Three years later he joined the Nazarenes . He was friends with Peter von Cornelius , Ferdinand Olivier , Friedrich Overbeck , Johann Anton Ramboux , Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Wilhelm von Schadow and Philipp Veit . 1815-1817 he stayed again in Paris, where he was a student in the teaching ateliers of Jacques-Louis David and Antoine-Jean Gros .
His sponsor, Baron Karl Friedrich von Rumohr , recognized his talent as an art writer. For his part, Passavant sponsored the promising painter Carl Philipp Fohr .
Passavant was one of the first to recognize the outstanding importance of Giotto for the development of western painting and celebrated him as a high point in Florentine art history. In 1840, Passavant was appointed inspector of the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. In this position he achieved something extraordinary as a discoverer (and buyer) of late medieval painters and their works of art.
He painted and donated the portrait of Emperor Heinrich II for the Kaisergalerie des Frankfurter Römer .
literature
- Otto Donner von Richter : Passavant, Johann David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 198-203.
- Ekkehard Mai : Passavant, Johann David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 89 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . S.?.
- Nina Struckmeyer: Passavant, Johann David , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 222-225.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann David Passavant in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Johann David Passavant in the German Digital Library
- Johann David Passavant at arthistoricum.net - the context of the history of science and digitized works in the “History of Art History” portal
Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt (1817–1830) | Philipp Veit (1830–1843) | Johann David Passavant (1843–1861) | Gerhard Malß (1861–1885) | Georg Kohlbacher (1885–1889) | Henry Thode (1889-1891) | Heinrich Weizsäcker (1891–1904) | Ludwig Justi (1904–1906) | Georg Swarzenski (1906–1938) | Ernst Holzinger (1938–1972) | Klaus Gallwitz (1974–1994) | Herbert Beck (1994-2006) | Max Hollein (2006–2016) | Philipp Demandt (since 2016)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passavant, Johann David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1861 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |