Johann Martin Seekatz
Johann Martin Seekatz (born June 6, 1680 in Westerburg , Westerwald , † October 10, 1729 in Worms ) was a German painter.
Life
Seekatz was born in Westerburg as the son of Johann Georg Seekatz (1644–1715) and his wife Christina Dern (1648–1709). At that time the place belonged to the rulership of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg , which brought it to the Palatinate town of Grünstadt . After the destruction of their nearby ancestral seats in Alt- and Neuleiningen , the counts had that little town turned into a residence.
From 1709 to 1725 Seekatz lived in Grünstadt as a court painter to the Counts of Linz. Then he moved to Worms, where he received a large order to design the Trinity Church. In the residential city of Grünstadt, he was certainly involved in the design of both the count's palaces, the upper court and the lower court . In the stairwell of the southern building of Oberhof Castle (Neugasse 2), he is assigned a ceiling painting with mythological scenes, although Seekatz's authorship has recently been questioned again.
In 1725 Seekatz provided the gallery of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Worms with paintings (contract dated January 30, 1725). Without specifying the content, he was obliged to "artificially grind the raised parapets with their fields and borders with fine colors, and to gild the adjoining small strips with fine gold." The artist also created a mural depicting Luther's appearance on the Worms Reichstag.
Since Seekatz died while working on the Trinity Church, the Luther picture was completed in 1733 by his son Johann Ludwig Seekatz . The paintings themselves were all lost in the Second World War when the church was destroyed, but were previously documented in color photographs and are visually secured.
Seekatz married Juliana Magdalena Kuhlmann in Westerburg on October 24, 1706. Of the couple's 10 children, three sons took up their father’s profession. Two of them, Johann Ludwig and Georg Christian , continued the more handcrafted, rural art of their father, the third, Johann Conrad (1719–1786), developed an independent painting style and gained national fame.
Johann Martin's younger brother, Georg Friedrich Christian Seekatz, was also a painter.
literature
- Seekatz, Johann Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 428-429 .
- Ludwig Bamberger: Johann Martin Seekatz, "the father" . In: The life of the painter Johann Conrad Seekatz 1719–1768 . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1916, first chapter: The Seekatz family of painters and the manual beginnings of Johann Conrad, p. 3–5 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - University publication for obtaining a doctorate).
- Fritz Ernst: A rediscovered painting from the Baroque period in Grünstadt [to Johann Martin Seekatz]. In: Palatinate Museum 1921. p. 184.
- Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 13.2 Bad Dürkheim district. Worms 2006.
Web links
- Image gallery with enlargeable photos of the wall painting Luther on the Reichstag in Worms , by Johann Martin and Johann Ludwig Seekatz, wall painting from the Trinity Church in Worms, before the destruction in 1944
- Entry on Johann Martin Seekatz in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database - with incorrect information about the father
Individual evidence
- ^ Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 13.2 Bad Dürkheim district. Worms 2006, p. 192 f.
- ↑ Ludwig Bamberger: The life of the painter Johann Conrad Seekatz 1719–1768 . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1916, p. 4 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seekatz, Johann Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1680 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westerburg , Westerwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1729 |
| Place of death | Worms |