Johann Jakob Norbert Grund

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Johann Jakob Norbert Grund (born February 2, 1755 in Gunzenhausen , † 1814 in Prague ) was a Bohemian painter, writer and musician.

Life

His father, the harpist Johann / Jan Eustach Grund (* 1726), was a brother of the Prague painter Norbert Grund (1717–1767); his grandfather Christian Grund (around 1686–1751) was court painter to the Kolowrat family in Prague.

Johann Jakob Grund wanted to join the Jesuit order, but after its abolition in 1773 he decided to become a miniature painter . No information is known about his training as a painter, it is possible that he was informed by his uncle, it is only certain that he worked as a miniature painter in Ansbach .

On July 22nd, 1779 he came to Rome and continued to paint. He married there in 1781. In Rome he had contact with Goethe , who referred to him as “Cosetto” (“Little Sächelchen”). On September 9, 1791, he was appointed professor at the Art Academy in Florence . In 1794 he left Florence and moved to Germany, later to Prague. In Prague he was mainly concerned with music and in 1814 became a professor at the Prague Conservatory .

His sons also became artists: Francesco (* 1784 in Vienna) became a painter, Enrico (* October 28, 1883 in Rome) copperplate engraver and cameo cutter, Vincenzo (* September 30, 1795 in Rome) copperplate engraver and Johann († February 18, 1847 in Rome) camee tailor.

The painting of the Greeks , 1810

Johann Jakob Grund wrote a tragedy, a travelogue to Italy and a work about painting by the Greeks. His work on the painting of the Greeks from 1810 is the only book on the art of the Greeks that Karl Marx verifiably read and excerpted.

Fonts

  • J. Jakob Grund: Emperor Karl the Third, called the Fat. Original tragedy in 5 acts. Kurzbeck, Vienna 1784 ( books.google.de ).
  • (anonymous): A German artist's picturesque journey to Rome. A worthy counterpart to Volkmann's and von Archenholz's works . 2 parts in 1 volume. Hochleitter, Vienna 1789 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
  • Johann Jakob Grund: Educational history of painting . In: Der Freimüthige or Ernst and Scherz 4th year, 1806, no. 68, pp. 269-271; No. 70, pp. 278-279; No. 71, pp. 281-282; No. 72, pp. 286-287; No. 73, pp. 290-291.
  • Johann Jakob Grund: The painting of the Greeks or the origin, progress, completion and decline of painting. An attempt . 2 volumes, Walther, Dresden 1810/11 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Jakob Norbert Grund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ According to the general artist dictionary ; the year of death does not seem to be certain, in the literature the information can be found 1812, 1814 and 1815.
  2. ^ Ernst Günther Schmidt : Winckelmann, Grund and Marx. In: Reception of antiquity, antiquity, encounter with antiquities in the past & present Volume 3: From 1848 to the present . Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Stendal 1983, pp. 623-644, again in ders., Acquired heritage. Studies on ancient literature and its aftermath. Reclam, Leipzig 1988, pp. 443-464.
personal data
SURNAME Reason, Johann Jakob Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reason, Johann Jakob (nickname); Reason, Johann Jacob Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian painter, author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH 1814
Place of death Prague