Johann Georg Schütz

Flat landscape with a peasant woman and her son by the river, in the background a hunter , oil on oak

Johann Georg Schütz (born May 16, 1755 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 11, 1813 there ) was a German painter and etcher .

life and work

Schütz was the younger son of the Frankfurt painter Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. Ä. and his first wife Anna Maria geb. Hochecker . He received his first lessons in his father's workshop and studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1776 to 1779 . After his first attempts as a landscape painter, he specialized in history paintings and portraits.

From 1779 to 1784 he lived again in his hometown, after which he settled in Rome until 1790 . He lived in Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbeins' apartment on Corso No. 18 (today the " Casa di Goethe " museum ) and was one of his friends. In 1786 he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on his trip to Italy , who mentioned him in his writing Winkelmann and his century . Schütz illustrated Goethe's treatise The Roman Carneval with 20 colored copperplate engravings. Duchess Amalie also belonged to this circle of painters , whom he drew with her entourage on trips to Tivoli in 1787 .

After returning from Rome he settled in Frankfurt again, where he was called the “Roman Schütz” to distinguish himself from other painters from his family, including the slightly younger Christian Georg Schütz “the cousin” . At the end of 1791 he took over the workshop of his late father Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. Ä. On October 21, 1798 he married Maria Thekla Würdwein from Walldürn . The son Christian Georg Schütz the Younger from this marriage also became a painter.

Schütz died of consumption in May 1813 . A number of his drawings and paintings are in the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt.

literature

• Philipp Friedrich Gwinner : Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt 1862, pp. 318–319 ( digitized version )
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 346-347 .