Johann Franz Brentano

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Johann Franz Wilhelm Paul Brentano (born May 29, 1801 in Darmstadt ; † April 27, 1841 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German portrait painter .

Johann Franz Brentano belonged to a Darmstadt branch of the family living in Seligenstadt . He is therefore also called Brentano from (von) Seligenstadt in the literature . His mother Luise was a chambermaid of the Landgrave of Darmstadt. She "... used her influence to have Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig support her son's studies ". From 1820 Brentano studied at the art school of the Städel Institute and was counted among the painters and teachers Philipp Veit and Edward von Steinle . In 1835 he painted - together with his fellow student Joseph Settegast - the altarpiece designed by Veit in the church of St. Peter and Paul in Camberg im Taunus . For von Steinle he executed the small pictures above in the chapel of the Bethmann-Hollwegschen Schloss Rheineck in 1838 .

Johann Franz worked as a prolific portrait painter in Frankfurt. He made the portraits of Emperor Karl IV (donated by the evening circle in Frankfurt am Main) and Maximilian I as commissioned work for the Kaisersaal in Frankfurt's Römer . Charles's painting can still be seen today. It is believed that a Frankfurt servant sat as a model for Alexander von Bethmann's painting. The commissioned portrait depicting Maximilian I was rejected and given to the Historical Museum . It was finally carried out for the Kaisersaal by Brentano's colleague Alfred Rethel .

Brentano died shortly before the Kaisergalerie opened to the Frankfurt audience.

literature

Heinrich Weizsäcke, Albert Dessoff, Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main in the Nineteenth Century , Volume 1, Verlag J. Baer, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1909, p. 20

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the footsteps of the Brentano family - Torn from the circle of friends . In: Offenbach Post online from August 1, 2017
  2. ^ Pia Müller-Tamm : Nazarenic drawing art. Volume 4 of the series The Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th Century of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. 2018, p. 197
  3. ^ Johann Andreas Romberg: Conversationslexicon for visual arts. 1844, p. 270
  4. ↑ Didaskalia: Blätter für Geist, Gemüth und Publicitäts , Volume 3, 1842, without p.
personal data
SURNAME Brentano, Johann Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brentano, Johann Franz Wilhelm Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1841
Place of death Frankfurt am Main