Johann Jakob Schmitz

Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach and her chamberlain Ignatius Fortuna

Johann Jakob Schmitz (born 1724 in Cologne ; died August 21, 1810 there ) was a German court painter who created historical and portrait portraits .

Life

Schmitz was a son of the painter Peter Augustin Schmitz. On March 23, 1759 he was accepted into the painters' guild in Cologne, which later elected him "Forty-Four". He also made a portrait of his wife, which ended up in the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Municipal Museum . In 1754 he was commissioned to restore old wall paintings in the Hardenrath Chapel of the Church of St. Maria in the Capitol, dating from 1466. He is said to have treated the portraits with little consideration and redesigned them according to his own ideas, so that hardly anything of the original works was preserved. From July 22, 1766 a receipt for 32 Reichsthaler remained from him, which for a 16-day work for “Die Mahlerey auff dem Löblichen Ritterzunfft Hauss Windeck called Renoviret and Acomodiret per day two Rthlr. the Collen d. June 19th 1766 ”. He was employed at the court in Bonn and in 1782 was one of the court painters of Elector Maximilian Friedrich. When Cologne was taken over by the French in 1794, a famous picture of Peter was transferred to Paris by Rubens, whereupon the church master Hermann Joseph Stern commissioned Schmitz to make a replica to fill the empty space in the high altar of St. At the age of 73, Schmitz created a little-praised copy based on a drawing and a bad copy, since the original was no longer on site. This was handed over on August 8, 1797. Schmitz lived in a house on Schildergasse. He had a book in which he made pencil drawings and sketches for the portraits that he later wanted to put in oil on canvas. This book came into the possession of the painter and art collector Friedrich Fromm in 1836. Among the sketches was a self-portrait by Schmitz from May 10, 1787.

His son Franz Hieronymus Schmitz also became a painter and a master in 1774. Around 1770 Schmitz received an order for a stately portrait of the Essen princess Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach .

Works (selection)

1768: Pastor Breisgen († 1762) and Wolff († 1772) half figures
1777 Cologne mayor Johann Arnold Theodor von Stattlohn for the Küppersche guest house and bath house in Rolandseck
1797: Petri crucifixion portrait after Rubens

literature

Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 176 .
Hella Robels: A sketchbook by the Cologne painter Johann Jacob Schmitz (1724–1801) . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch. West German yearbook for art history . tape 51 . Du Mont, 1990, ISSN 0083-7105 , p. 221-240 , JSTOR : 44650107 .

Web links

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

Pänz at the Cologne City Museum (Johann Jakob Schmitz: Allegory Fire and Water , 1757; Pänz is a regional expression for children )
The turnip comes to Cologne (portraits of the married couple Johann Jakob and Margarethe Herstatt)
Johann Jakob Schmitz bildindex.de

Individual evidence

↑ Schmitz, Peter Augustin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 177 .
^ Johann Jacob Schmitz . In: Directory of the paintings in the Wallraf-Richartz Municipal Museum in Cologne . Publishing house, Cologne 1903, p. 186 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Description of the picture of his wife). Georg Biermann : German Baroque and Rococo - published following the exhibition of the century of German art 1650–1800, Darmstadt, 1914 . tape
2 . Erik Ernst Schwabach, Leipzig 1914, p. 479 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Illustration: The wife of the artist Johann Jakob Schmitz).
^ Johann Jakob Merlo: Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: Cologne artists in old and new times . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, Sp. 767-769 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
^ Schmitz, Franz Hieronymus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 176 .
^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 213 ( 213 - Internet Archive ).
^ Gustav Parthey: Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: Deutscher Bildersaal - directory of the oil paintings of deceased painters in all schools in Germany . tape 2 : L-Z . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1864, p. 515 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Schmitz, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmitz, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1724
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	August 21, 1810
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Schmitz, Peter Augustin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 177 .

[2] Johann Jacob Schmitz . In: Directory of the paintings in the Wallraf-Richartz Municipal Museum in Cologne . Publishing house, Cologne 1903, p. 186 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Description of the picture of his wife). Georg Biermann : German Baroque and Rococo - published following the exhibition of the century of German art 1650–1800, Darmstadt, 1914 . tape
2 . Erik Ernst Schwabach, Leipzig 1914, p. 479 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Illustration: The wife of the artist Johann Jakob Schmitz).

[3] Johann Jakob Merlo: Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: Cologne artists in old and new times . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, Sp. 767-769 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[4] Schmitz, Franz Hieronymus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 176 .

[5] Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 213 ( 213 - Internet Archive ).

[6] Gustav Parthey: Schmitz, Johann Jakob . In: Deutscher Bildersaal - directory of the oil paintings of deceased painters in all schools in Germany . tape 2 : L-Z . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1864, p. 515 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).