Johann Heinrich Schmidt (painter, 1757)
Johann Heinrich Schmidt called Fornaro (born August 2, 1757 in Ottweiler , † in May 1821 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter .
Life
Joh. Heinrich Schmidt was born in Ottweiler as the son of the princely servant Peter Schmidt and brought up in the Evangelical Lutheran denomination. After his talent as a painter was recognized, he was trained in the royal seat of Saarbrücken by the court painter Johann Jakob Samhammer , as were Johann Friedrich Dryander and Johann Kaspar Pitz of the same age . Schmidt went to Darmstadt with Samhammer around 1774.
It says there: “ JJ Samhammer, a skilful local portrait painter from the Fiedler school, who is now also a court painter. His pupil Joh. Heinrich Schmidt, a young man with a lot of hope, who stands out especially in miniature paintings ”. Schmidt worked as a court cabinet painter and miniaturist from Hessen-Darmstadt and appeared in Mannheim between 1783 and 1787 . He lived in Rome between 1787 and 1798 . In Goethe's circle of artists in Rome he was nicknamed Fornaro (baker). He converted to the Catholic faith and on August 5, 1792 married a Roman woman, his model Teresa Banducci. From 1798 to 1809 he stayed in Naples . His Italian landscapes were in great demand and particularly sought after in England.
To distinguish it from the Saxon court painter of the same name Johann Heinrich Schmidt from Hildburghausen (1749-1829), with whom he is mixed in the older literature, his "discoverer" Karl Lohmeyer described him under the emergency name "Johann Heinrich Schmidt called Fornaro ", the Schmidt himself so never led.
literature
- Karl Lohmeyer : Ottweiler in the art of the 18th century. Volume 1 of the publications of the Working Group for Regional Studies. Ottweiler o. J. [1950], therein pp. 59–77 about Schmidt called Fornaro.
- Karl Lohmeyer: The Saarland painter Joh. Heinrich Schmidt, called Fornaro in Rome and Naples with his Goethe connections. Ottweiler n.d. [1952].
- Peter Neumann (Ed.): Saarländische Lebensbilder. Volume 2. 1984, pp. 83-115.
Web links
- Johann Heinrich Schmidt called Fornaro in the Saarland biographies
- Literature on Johann Heinrich Schmidt (painter, 1757) in the Saarland Bibliography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Johann Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fornaro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottweiler |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1821 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |