Johann Heinrich Kass
Johann Heinrich Kass , also Hans Kaß or Kasch († probably before 1666 in Lübeck ) was a German painter.
Life
Kass worked in Lübeck around 1640 as a freelance master and contrafayer , i.e. a portrait painter. He worked for the mayor Anton Köhler and created two portraits of his family members for the Köhler ancestral gallery compiled by Köhler , which is now a collection of around 20 portraits in the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck. The pictures are the portraits of Anton Köhler's second wife and father. The aged Anton Köhler sued him in 1656 because it was taking too long to paint Koehler's grave chapel in Lübeck's Marienkirche . Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg saw in him the progenitor of an artisanal Lübeck family of four painters, the last of whom died in 1729.
literature
- Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : Kaß, Hans in: Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 19, Leipzig 1926, p. 585
- Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg: The history of the Lübeck painters 'office and the painters' guild from 1425 to 1925 . Borchers, Lübeck 1925
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kass, Johann Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaß, Hans; Kasch, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1666 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |