Johann Gottfried Tannauer

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Johann Gottfried Tannauer , also Gottfried Danhauer (* 1680 in the Electorate of Saxony ; † between 1733 and 1737 in Saint Petersburg ), was a German court artist and painter who worked in Russia from 1711 .

Life

Working as a watchmaker in Swabia , Tannauer became a violinist and finally worked in Venice as a painter for Sebastiano Bombelli . In Holland he worked as Rubens - Kopist and became a portrait painter .

While Tannauer was working in Karlsbad , Johann Kupetzky recommended him to Tsar Peter I. In 1710 he was hired by the latter as court painter , went to Smolensk and accompanied the ruler on his Prut campaign .

Hermitage : Peter the Great, portrayed in oil by Johann Gottfried Tannauer

In the following years in Petersburg he portrayed the Tsar and his wife several times as well as the Tsarevich , Count Pyotr Andreevich Tolstoy in 1719 , Admiral General Apraxin in 1725 , Vasily Tatishchev in 1717 , the diplomat Count Pavel Ivan Jaguzinskij and Admiral Ivan Mikhailovich in 1725. Tannauer also repaired clocks. The court painter Tannauer's pupils were, for example, Ivan Nikitin and Pyotr Jeropkin .

In 1727 - two years after the death of Peter I - Tannauer suffered a stroke on his return journey to his German homeland in Poland . When he returned to Petersburg, he died at his place of work between 1733 and 1737.

literature

  • Larissa Vasser: European court artists in St. Petersburg in the first half of the 18th century: sculptors Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, painters Johann Gottfried Tannauer and Louis Caravaque. A contribution to the 'Europeanization' of Russia. Logos-Verlag, Berlin 2015 (Diss. TH Aachen 2014). ISBN 978-3-8325-3973-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian ru: Головин, Иван Михайлович (1680–1737)
  2. ↑ Russian ru: Никитин, Иван Никитич (1690–1742)

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personal data
SURNAME Tannauer, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Electorate of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 1737
Place of death St. Petersburg