Johann Ernst Rentzsch (the younger)

Johann Ernst Rentzsch , also Johann Ernst Rentsch (born June 2, 1693 in Weimar , † 1767 ibid) was a German painter . His father is the painter Johann Ernst Rentsch (the elder) .

Life

Since the death of his father, whose successor he succeeded in 1723, Rentzsch was court painter to the Weimar Duke Wilhelm Ernst (1662–1728) and later to Ernst August I (1688–1746).

One of Rentzsch's best-known works is the painting of the baroque wooden barrel vault, created in 1726/1729, and the furnishings of the St. Mauritius Church in Niedergrunstedt , which today belongs to Weimar. The church, which also served as a motif for the painter Lyonel Feininger , is one of Weimar's sights. Johann-Ernst-Rentzsch-Straße in Niedergrunstedt is named after the painter.

Rentzsch also created parts of the furnishings for the Belvedere Palace in Weimar- Ehringsdorf , for example the ceiling painting in the tower room there from 1734, which shows Duke Ernst August surrounded by his court ladies. The Duke maintained a regular harem in which two noble "ladies of honor" and three middle-class "chambermaids" were at his service.

Rentzsch's grave is located in the so-called Cranach crypt on the south side of the Weimar Jakobskirche, where Lucas Cranach the Elder is also located. Ä. and 35 other personalities were buried, including the painters Georg Melchior Kraus , Ferdinand Karl Christian Jagemann and Johann Friedrich Loeber . The tombstones are on the church wall.

Rentzsch's sister Johanna Dorothea was the mother of the Saxon court painter and copper engraver Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712–1774).