Johann König (painter)
Johann König , also Hans König (born October 21, 1586 in Nuremberg ; † March 4, 1642 ibid) was a German painter , miniaturist and draftsman . Today it is best known for its very finely painted copper panels .
Life
Johann König was born in Nuremberg in 1586 as the son of the goldsmith Arnold König. His knowledge of the works of Johannes Rottenhammer the Elder suggest that he could have spent his apprenticeship years in Augsburg (possibly with Rottenhammer).
What is certain is that he stayed in Venice for a year and in Rome from September 1610-1614. Here he probably met Adam Elsheimer , who died in December 1610 , whose early Roman style was a direct inspiration for King's work. Early on, in Königs’s works, there was a direct expression in Elsheimer's landscape art.
Together with the works of Paul Bril , they exerted a strong influence on the young painter. Probably in Rome he came into contact with the early works of Carlo Saraceni .
In 1614 he returned and married in Augsburg, where he was given the right to paint. In 1622 he became the forerunner of the painters' guild and a year later he became a member of the Grand Council. After 1620 he worked together with Matthäus Gundelach and Johann Matthias Kager in decorating the Augsburg town hall created by Elias Holl .
After the edict of restitution, he returned to Nuremberg for religious reasons around 1631, where he died in March 1642 after continuing to work.
plant
König became known as a painter of small-format pictures on copper and colorful miniatures and also art chamber pieces on marble and agate .
Philipp Hainhofer held him in high esteem and kept providing him with papers from the archives, including orders. He commissioned the three monumental pictures of the south-western prince's room and the courtroom to furnish the Augsburg town hall . Here, König finished the works The Last Judgment and The Story of Ananias and Saphera for the courtroom .
König is less known for a series of large-format canvas paintings with personifications of the virtues and Roman rulers, which he painted for the town hall in Augsburg and which are now exhibited together with five drawings in the municipal art collections in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg. Other works by König can be found in the Louvre in Paris , in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna , the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin , the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt , the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe , the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford .
This is followed by some individual pieces of medium-sized format on canvas, such as the painting of Saint Peter in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig and the painting of the stoning of Saint Stephen. In December, a 61.5 × 46 cm painting on a copper panel of the Resurrection of Christ was auctioned at the Lempertz auction house in Cologne .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hubert Janitschek: History of German painting. Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-207-0 .
- ^ Margit Kern: History of the fine arts in Germany: Baroque and Rococo. (= History of the fine arts in Germany. Volume 5). Prestel, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-3630-5 .
- ↑ richard-green.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ richard-green.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Resurrection of Christ, oil on copper 61.5 × 46 cm, 1622. Lempertz Auction House, Cologne, November 17, 2012.
- ↑ stadtlexikon-augsburg.de
- ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon: or, News of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, .... Seventh volume. Publisher EA Fleischmann, Munich 1839.
literature
- Edgar Baumgartl, Gabriele Lauterbach, Kornelius Otto: Painter in Franconia - the life and work of artists from five centuries. Spätlese-Verlag, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-924461-12-6 .
- Günther Grünsteudel (Ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .
- Britta-R. Schwahn: King, Johann Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 340 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1586 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1642 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |