Johann Friedrich Wentzel
Johann Friedrich Wentzel d. Ä. (Born August 10, 1670 in Berlin ; † January 20, 1729 in Dresden ) was a German painter and etcher .
Life
Wentzel was a student of the painter, etcher and iron cutter Tobias Querfurt († 1734) in Wolfenbüttel and later of the painter and etcher Johann Oswald Harms (1643–1708) in Braunschweig , with whom he often made watercolors. Orders from the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich III followed. who financed him a stay in Italy from 1698 to 1700. He studied Italian painting in Venice , Rome and Florence . When he returned to Berlin in 1700, he became a court painter and, for example, drew the king's coronation ceremony, but also made ceiling paintings for a new part of the castle built by Andreas Schlüter .
When the first Prussian king died and his successor Friedrich Wilhelm I saved everything but the military, Wentzel went to Dresden, where he died in 1729. His son Johann Friedrich Wentzel the Elder. J. (1709–1782) also became a painter.
literature
- Wentzel, (Wenzel), Johann Friedrich . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 78 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Wentzel (Johann Friedrich) . In: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . tape 3 : L-Z . Ernest Gründ, Paris 1924, p. 1052 (French, text archive - Internet Archive ).
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : Wentzel, Johann Friedrich . In: New general artist Lexicon, or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . 3. Edition. tape 24 : Wauquier – Wolfgang. . Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig 1936, p. 124–125 ( books.google.de - reprinted unchanged).
- Wentzel, Johann Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 382 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Painting by Johann Friedrich Wentzel, around 1700, archive of the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wentzel, Johann Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wentzel, Johann Friedrich the Elder Ä. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1670 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1729 |
| Place of death | Dresden |