Johann Gottfried Riedel

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Johan Gotfried Riedel had the title Mahler and Inspector der Königl: Bilder = Gallery in Dresden ; 1813 AH Riedel, Dresden Kupferstichkabinett

Johann Gottfried Riedel , also Riedl, Rüdl (baptized February 12, 1690 as Johann Gottfriedt Riedl in Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia ; died December 12, 1755 in Dresden ) was a German painter , restorer , gallery inspector; from 1742 court painter in Dresden and supervisor of the picture gallery.

Life

Johann Gottfried Riedel was born as the son of the citizen and butcher Andreas Riedel (1654–1719) and his wife Elisabeth. Fritsch (1654–1729) born in Falkenau.

He learned how to draw and restore pictures during a five-year apprenticeship with the painter Jakob Männl in Vienna , who worked there at the Gemäldegalerie. From Männl he also got the secret recipe for a mixture with which he impregnated the paintings.

After his apprenticeship in Vienna, Riedel continued his training as a painter in Naples in the workshop of the then famous artist Francesco Solimena .

In 1725 he was a painter for Count Nostitz-Rieneck in Falkenau and Prague. In 1735 and 1737 he restored a large part of the collection of Count Franz Joseph Georg von Waldstein in Dux .

From 1739 he was appointed court painter to Elector Friedrich August II. To Dresden (annual salary: 500 Reichstaler). On May 5, 1742 he was appointed inspector of the royal picture gallery (annual salary: 900 Reichstaler) next to the secret chamberlain Johann Adam Steinhäuser . As the supervisor of the electoral-royal collection of paintings, he acquired various pictures, for example the robbery of Ganymede von Rembrandt (1635) at the Leipzig trade fair in 1751 .

Riedel prepared appraisals when purchasing pictures from abroad and is the author of the first printed catalog of the Gemäldegalerie. As a gallery inspector, he was responsible for the conservation maintenance of the collections of the royal picture gallery . After his death in 1755, his son Johann Anton Riedel (1736–1816) succeeded him as gallery inspector.

Johann Gottfried Riedel married Maria Theresia Sacher from Karlsbad on September 25, 1725 in Falkenau . In addition to the son Johann Anton, there was also the daughter Maria Theresia Riedel (* around 1730 in Prague ; † 1792 in Dresden). She was trained in the art of painting by her father and copied the works of great painters with great skill.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taufmatrik Falkenau (1658–1733) p. 343.
  2. ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Riedel,_Johann_Gottfried
  3. ↑ maid entry in Sokolov (Matrik Vol. 3, weddings 1658-1761), born 1725
  4. ↑ http://saebi.isgv.de/biografie-druck/Johann_Gottfried_Riedel_%281691-1755%29
  5. ↑ Traumatrik Falkenau, Vol. 3, (1758–1761) Born in 1725 as an artist Mr. Godefridum Rüdl, a manorial painter .
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüdl, Johann Gottfried; Riedl, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter, restorer, gallery inspector
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 12, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau on the Eger
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1755
Place of death Dresden