Johann Fink

Johann Fink , also Johann Finck or Johann Fincke , (born April 20, 1628 in Freiberg or in Graslitz / Böhmen (Czech: Kraslice ); † December 10, 1675 in Dresden ) was a portrait and history painter.

Life

Johann Fink was trained as a painter in Freiberg. He became a master in 1648 and then traveled to Italy, where he got to know Italian painting of the high baroque , especially in Naples . He worked in Dresden from 1658, first in the service of the Oberhofmarschall Johann Georg von Rechenberg and from 1659 as court painter to the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II , who appointed him in 1663 instead of the deceased Christian Schiebling as a "contrafactur and Oberhofmaler". Fink later received the title of valet. He was also given responsibility for the electoral “ Lusthaus auf dem Ritterberge ” in Dresden.

Works

Johann Fink's artistic work was subject to various influences. While his portrait painting was based on Dutch models, he tended to paint the Italian high baroque in his ceiling or history paintings , using strong and bright colors such as red, blue and yellow.

• Johann Fink's earliest work is the 1648 altarpiece depicting the Lord's Supper in both forms in the Olbernhau town church . In the upper scene the setting up of the Last Supper was shown, whereby the figure, garment and color design are reminiscent of Albrecht Dürer . The distribution of the Lord's Supper in the lower part was designed in the contemporary style of the time and kept on a smaller scale.

• His main work is the ceiling painting Ascension of Christ in the castle chapel in Moritzburg from 1668/70 . The work is considered to be the first attempt to naturalize the illusionistic painting of the Italian high baroque in Saxony.

Further works (selection):

• Portrait of the Mining Captain Georg Friedrich von Schönberg (1649), Freiberg, Oberbergbauamt
• Double portrait of Johann Georg II. And Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (oil painting around 1660/65), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Biblical history painting The Expulsion from Paradise (1663), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Biblical history painting The Flight into Egypt (1667), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Altar painting of the Crucifixion of Christ for the Church of St. Marien and Laurentius in Dippoldiswalde (around 1670)
• Around image with the representation of the Holy Spirit as a dove (1670), which originally belonged to the altar of the Castle Church and in today Protestant parish Moritzburg is
• two portraits of the Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony (between 1670 and 1675), Historical Museum Dresden
• Portrait of the court preacher Johann Andreas Lucius (around 1670), original lost, copy as copperplate engraving by Johann Caspar Höckner (1629–1670 / 71) and Christian Romstet , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Portrait of the master builder Johann Georg Starcke (around 1670), still found in Dresden in 1722, later lost
• Self-portrait , original lost, copy as copper engraving by Johann Bensheimer based on a drawing by JG Nohr, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

literature

• Walter Fellmann : Saxony Lexicon . Koehler & Amelang publishing company. Munich / Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-7338-0234-9 .
• Marianne Mehling (Hrsg.): Knaurs culture guide in color Saxony . Munich 1991. ISBN 3-426-26488-9 .

Web links

• Stefanie Gericke: Johann Fink , written on November 16, 2010 in: Sächsische Biografie, ed. from the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV, edited by Martina Schattkowsky
• Walter Hentschel : Johann Fink in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 5 (1961), p. 160 f.