Johann Heiss

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Johann Heiss (born June 19, 1640 in Memmingen , † 1704 in Augsburg ) was a German baroque painter .

Life

After his training in Memmingen, which he completed with Hans Conrad Sichelbein and Johann Sichelbein , he was in the service of Duke Eberhard III of Württemberg in 1663 and 1664 in Stuttgart . From 1677 he lived and worked in Augsburg.

Works

Hot: Esther's feast, St. Petersburg, Hermitage.

Works by Heiss can be seen in Germany in the Baroque Gallery in Ludwigsburg Castle , in the Memmingen City Museum, in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (Braunschweig), in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, in the Germanic National Museum (Nuremberg), the German Baroque Gallery (Augsburg) and the State Gallery (Stuttgart). Abroad he is represented by works in the Louvre (Paris), the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) and the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg).

His sculptures include:

  • Ecce homo , 1662, Diocesan Museum Freiburg
  • Around 1666: altarpieces of two side altars in the pilgrimage church of St. Rasso in Grafrath
  • Cycle (Crucifixion of Christ and 5 additional pictures), 1670, originally monastery church of the Benedictine Empire Abbey of Ochsenhausen
  • The Baptism of Christ, 1674, originally for the Evangelical Cross Church, Augsburg
  • Four seasons cycle, 1676
  • The Prodigal Son cycle, 1676
  • Academy pictures, scenes insp. by the Augsburg Academy (founded 1670 to 1673 by Joachim von Sandrart )
  • Allegory of the Abundantia with river gods, around 1698, Mercantile Magistrate , Bolzano

In 1675, Joachim von Sandrart explicitly mentions Heiss in his "Teutschen Academie" as a history painter, whose pictures "very well contain lovers and art experts" .

His work "Manus Dei", which is recorded in several archives, is considered lost. It became known through a forgery by the painter Wolfgang Beltracchi , which was exhibited in the Szépművészeti Múzeum , among other places .

literature

  • Günther Bayer: Memmingen painter at the time of the baroque. Life pictures and works. Franz Georg Hermann - new research results . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-454-0 .
  • Dirk Blübaum : Swabian master of baroque splendor. Friedrichshafen: Exhibition about Johann Heiß (1640–1704) . In: Castles of Baden-Württemberg . No. 4 , 2002, ISSN  0943-5298 , p. 32-35 .
  • Peter Königfeld : The painter Johann Heiss. Memmingen and Augsburg 1640–1704 . Konrad, Weißenhorn 2001, ISBN 3-87437-451-3 .
  • Wolfgang Meighörner (Ed.): Johann Heiss. Swabian master of baroque splendor . Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2002, ISBN 3-86136-077-2 (catalog for the exhibition in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, October 18, 2002 - February 9, 2003).
  • Hanns-Paul Ties: The allegory of the Abundantia with river gods in the Mercantile Palace in Bozen. A masterpiece by the Augsburg painter Johann Heiss / L'Allegoria dell'Abbondanza con divinità fluviali nel Palazzo Mercantile di Bolzano. Un capolavoro del pittore di Augusta Johann Heiss , in: Leo Andergassen et al. (Ed.): Ulrich Glantschnigg 1661–1722. The Bozen Baroque Painter / Il pittore barocco di Bolzano (issue no. 5 of the series of the Mercantile Museum Bozen / Quaderno no. 5 della collana del Museo Mercantile Bolzano), Bozen / Bolzano 2013, pp. 61–63.

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personal data
SURNAME Hot, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haiß, Johann; Hot, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South German baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH 1704
Place of death augsburg