Johann Jakob Werner Stockmar

Johann Jakob Werner Stockmar (* 1742 ; † February 19, 1806 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter and later Lieutenant Colonel and City Commander of Darmstadt.

Life

Stockmar was a son of the Darmstadt court hunt painter Johann Georg Stockmar . He was by Louis IX. obliged by Hessen-Darmstadt as court painter , but immediately gave up painting after the Grand Duke's death and devoted himself to his military career. He eventually became lieutenant colonel and city commandant of Darmstadt. He was married to Friederike Karolina Ravenstein and had a daughter with her, Karoline Friederike (1776–1838), who later became the Darmstadt government advocate and general staff auditor Christian Friedrich Lange (born June 11, 1759 Buchsweiler , † April 8, 1840 Darmstadt ) was married. His three grandchildren continued to paint in various ways.

Pirmasens Grenadiers. Oil painting by an unknown hand.

Louis IX owned a huge collection of soldier pictures. Johann Heinrich Merck reported in a letter to Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar and Eisenach dated September 18, 1780 about the landgrave: “His main occupation apart from the military is music and grinding. Year after year, two court grinders are employed to grind soldiers in all real existing, or still possible, uniforms. He takes off his uniforms on his travels [...]. When he is at home, these works are now carried out, including a certain Lieuten. Stockmar, a Mahler, is inevitably busy with it every day, bit by 12 at night. [...] The number of soldiers ground is incredible. They stand one behind the other in a hall, like in an upstairs church, or amphitheater, etc. even the window embellishments are full of it. The other day the fiels a HofMahler one, one or a few of these males to take their place, to bring them to his son, to class home [...] notwithstanding the damage was ersezt immediately, now has sentry the Ordre this man Always visit the thrust saw when leaving. "

literature

Ulrike Leuschner (ed.), Johann Heinrich Merck. Correspondence , Volume 2, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0105-4 , pp. 482 and 485

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Lange, Christian Friedrich. Hessian biography (as of June 11, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 1, 2019 .
^ Heidrun Ludwig: The paintings of the 18th century in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt , inventory catalog, Darmstadt 1997, p. 61
↑ Ulrike Leuschner (ed.), Johann Heinrich Merck. Briefwechsel , Volume 2, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0105-4 , p. 482. In her commentary on p. 485, Leuschner gives the year of birth 1743, while the DNB mentions 1742 as the year of birth of Stockmar.

personal data
SURNAME	Stockmar, Johann Jakob Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Court painter to Louis IX. von Hessen-Darmstadt, Lieutenant Colonel and City Commander Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH	1742
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1806
Place of death	Darmstadt

[lagis-1] A ^b Lange, Christian Friedrich. Hessian biography (as of June 11, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 1, 2019 .

[2] Heidrun Ludwig: The paintings of the 18th century in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt , inventory catalog, Darmstadt 1997, p. 61

[3] Ulrike Leuschner (ed.), Johann Heinrich Merck. Briefwechsel , Volume 2, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0105-4 , p. 482. In her commentary on p. 485, Leuschner gives the year of birth 1743, while the DNB mentions 1742 as the year of birth of Stockmar.