Johann Franz Hoffmann
Johann Franz Hoffmann (* 1699 or 1701 in Glatz , Glatz , † 4. February 1766 in Grüssau , Principality Schweidnitz ) was a painter of the Baroque .
Life
Johann Franz Hoffmann was born in 1699 or 1701 as the son of the citizen Johann Hoffmann in Glatz, which together with the county of Glatz belonged to Bohemia until 1742 and 1763 respectively . Little is known about his education and career. The widespread assumption that he was a student of Michael Willmann cannot be true, since Willmann died in 1706. In the literature Hoffmann is referred to several times as the "painter from Grüssau". Together with the Glatzer Andreas Josef Maywald he worked in the Grüssau workshop of Willmann's grandson Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz . For the year 1730 he is documented as a journeyman of the Moravian painter Johann Christoph Handke when he frescoed the Königgrätzer Jesuit Church with him . He worked with Felix Anton Scheffler on individual objects . Hoffmann mainly created wall and ceiling paintings, but also oil paintings. A self-portrait from 1759, which was in the possession of Count Magnis in Eckersdorf Castle until 1945 , is now in the Wroclaw National Museum .
Works
- Mährisch-Neustadt : painting of the chapel of the Minorite monastery (1730, together with J. Chr. Handke )
- Hradisch Monastery : Archangel Michael (1732)
- Ullersdorf an der Biele , parish church hl. John the Baptist: Painting with Scenes from the Life of St. Katharina (1735; the church was originally consecrated to St. Catherine )
- Hirschberg , Protestant Gnadenkirche : wall and vault painting (1734–1751, together with FA Scheffler )
- Bad Warmbrunn , Catholic parish church St. Johannes: paintings "Christ on the Mount of Olives", "Christ under the Cross" and "Descent from the Cross" (1736)
- Obersteine , Scharfeneck Castle ( Dwór Sarny ): frescoes of the castle chapel (1738)
- Mittelsteine , parish church St. Maria Magdalena: frescoes of the St. Franz Xaver Chapel and the Mother of God Chapel (1738–1739)
- Albendorf , pilgrimage church: two paintings, one of which is no longer there.
- Rengersdorf , parish church St. Jakobus, All Saints Altar: painting (1745)
- Grüssau Abbey, Abbey Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary: painting of the altar of fourteen saints (1760)
literature
- Hoffmann, Johann Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 264 .
- Andrea Langer: The grace church "To the cross of Christ" in Hirschberg. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-07470-8 , pp. 77-79.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland Silesia . Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X .
- Joseph Kögler : The chronicles of the county Glatz. Revised by Dieter Pohl . Volume 3, ISBN 3-927830-15-1 , p. 261 ( Rengersdorf ) u. P. 334 ( Ullersdorf ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Self-portrait, Johann Franz Hoffmann (around 1700 Glatz - 1766 Grüssau). Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
- ↑ For example in Thieme-Becker.
- ↑ For example in the cited literature Die Chroniken der Grafschaft Glatz. P. 334.
- ↑ Johann Christoph Handke's autobiography, ed. by Richard Foerster, Breslau 1911, p. 16.
- ↑ The information in Thieme-Becker with Ullersdorf, Kr. Bunzlau, is incorrect.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Johann Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hofmann, Johann Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1699 or 1701 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glatz , County Glatz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1766 |
| Place of death | Grüssau , Principality of Schweidnitz |