Johann Liss

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The Rapture of St. Paul , Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) , 1629

Johann Liss (* around 1597 in Oldenburg, Holstein ; † November 5, 1631 in Verona ) was an important German painter of the 17th century.

Life

Johann Liss's parents were probably painters in the service of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorf and provided for his first training. He left his home early. From 1614 to 1619 he lived in Amsterdam , Haarlem and Antwerp . Around 1620 he traveled to Italy via Paris , first working in Venice and settling in Rome around 1622 , where he joined Caravaggio 's successors . He returned to Venice around 1627 and took on the commission for a large altarpiece, the inspiration of St. Jerome , in San Nicolò da Tolentino , which can still be seen there today. Liss died of the plague that broke out in Venice in 1629 .

As a result of his early death, he left only a small life's work. He was a passionate figure painter who valued both mythological and biblical subjects. According to Joachim von Sandrart , who lived with Liss for a while in Venice from 1628, Liss probably never sought a permanent position and led an erratic way of life with an unusual way of working, in which he “was often away from home for two or three nights” and then worked all night where he hardly got any sleep and ate little. He turned down warnings that he was harming his health.

Liss cultivated his very own, very painterly and colouristic style, which is mainly influenced by Venetian baroque painting, by models such as Titian , Rubens and Domenico Fetti . Its artistic impact was only able to develop in the 18th century, especially in Venice ( Sebastiano Ricci , Piazzetta , Tiepolo ).

Works

The toilet of Venus , Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Finding Moses , Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille
The Satyr at the Farmer's , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Herkulus am Scheideweg , around 1595, Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden

literature

Trivia

In Oldenburg in Holstein, the secondary school was named after Johann Liss . After the amalgamation of the Realschule with the Hauptschule and Grundschule, the name was no longer used. Since then the community school has been called Wagrien School. Only the former main building of the secondary school kept the name Johann .

Web links

Commons : Johann Liss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefania Mason: The Venetian Painting from the late 16th to 17th Century , in: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture , Vol. 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 524-575, here: 548
personal data
SURNAME Liss, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg, Holstein
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1631
Place of death Verona