Johann Harper
Johann Harper (born August 1688 in Stockholm , † December 4, 1746 in Potsdam ) was a Swedish painter.
Act
Harper was the son of the businessman Jakob Harper and his wife Anna (nee Pohl). He learned painting from Paul Heinecken , Peter Martin van Mytens and David von Krafft . In 1709 he took a trip to Germany and trained with Ismael Mengs, who emigrated to Lübeck, to become an excellent miniature and enamel painter.
He specialized in oil paintings and especially miniature painting . From 1712 he worked in Berlin , where he was appointed Prussian court cabinet painter in 1716. Harper also created ceiling paintings for Sanssouci .
His son, Adolf Friedrich Harper (1725–1806), learned miniature and flower painting from his father and became a landscape painter .
His students included Johann Gottlieb Glume (1711–1778) and Joachim Martin Falbe .
photos
Friedrich Wilhelm I , around 1720
Hans Christoph Friedrich von Hacke (created in 1722 on behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm I.)
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literature
- Johann Harper . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 50-51 .
- Joachim Konietzny, Angelika Konietzny: The Lübeck child prodigy Christian Henrich Heineken and the Prussian court painter Johann Harper. Pansdorf 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-065428-2
- Heinecken, Karl Heinrich: Messages from artists and art things (Volume 1), Leipzig, 1768
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harper, Johannes (Hans) . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 459 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- ^ Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal residence cities Berlin and Potsdam . tape 2 , 1786, p. 127 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ pastellists.com
- ^ Gert Streidt, Klaus Frahm, Gabriele Leuthäuser, Peter Feierabend: Potsdam - The castles and gardens of the Hohenzollern . Könemann, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-89508-238-4 , p. 38 .
- ^ Günter Meissner: General Artist Lexicon . tape 56 : Glandorf – Goepfart . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22740-0 , p. 261 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harper, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish miniature painter, Prussian cabinet painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1688 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 1746 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |