Johann Landwehr
Johann Landwehr (* after 1600 in Bremen , † after 1670 in Bremen) was a German painter .
biography
Landwehr was the son of the painter Jürgen Landwehr . He is mentioned from 1658 to 1670. Like his father, he worked as a painter. From 1658 the Bremen council commissioned him to produce pictures. In 1661 he painted a large city view from a bird's eye view with the new town and the old town of Bremen. Around the same time, a large-format copper engraving corresponding to this oil painting, printed from two plates, was created. Another painted version of the cityscape followed in 1663. Both paintings were in the Bremen town hall until 1890 ; the one from 1661 is now in the Focke Museum . In 1662 he gave the council the city council signed ILW , that is, painted by his father, from 1602, which hung in the guild chamber of the town hall until 1884.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Herbert Black Forest: View of Bremen . Bremen 1985, illustration p. 20/21, booklet p. 12–13.
- Werner Kloos : Das alten Bremen , Fig. 8. Schünemann, Bremen 1978, ISBN 3-7961-1699-X .
- Klaus Niehr: Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1859 , p. 110. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwarzwälder, Blick auf Bremen, no. 42, illus. P. 20. - There is a single copy of a variant of this engraving (Focke-Museum, inv. No. G.349, negative illus .: Kloos, Das Alte Bremen , front flyleaf) the left half, the corresponding (half) plate is owned by the Bremen State Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landwehr, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1670 |
| Place of death | Bremen |