Johann Leonhard Herrlein

Johann Leonhard Herrlein (born November 15, 1752 in Fulda , † October 25, 1814 in Vienna ) was a German painter and restorer . He came from the Herrlein family of painters .

Life

Johann Leonhard Herrlein received his training in the workshop of his father Johann Andreas Herrlein in Fulda . In 1779 he went to Vienna and took over the management of the painting collection of Prince Nicholas II. Esterházy , which today is the most important part of the collections of the Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts) in Budapest . Herrlein was responsible for building up one of the most important European art collections of its time. At the same time he worked as a painter, as he had previously in Fulda.

Works (selection)

Johann Leonhard Herrlein: Benedictine Church of Fulda, around 1776

• Interior of the Fulda Cathedral , painting, Vonderau Museum, Fulda, 1776
• Landscape vedute with Kohlhaus and Fulda Bridge , painting, Vonderau Museum, Fulda, before 1779
• Birkhahnbalz , painting, Vonderau Museum, Fulda, around 1780
• River landscape on the outskirts (of Vienna?) , Painting, private collection, Sulzbach, 1782

In 1779 in Vienna he also painted an al fresco staircase in a house on Sternwartegasse with depictions of agriculture. In 1786/1787 he restored the paintings in the Schottenkirche in Vienna.

literature

• Herrlein, Johann Leonhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 546 .
• Communications from the k. & k. Central Commission (Vienna). New series 22, 1896, p. 108.
• Adelheid Pawlowski: Visual artists of the Fulda baroque. In: Fulda history sheets. 43, 1967 pp. 2–31, here: p. 12.