Johann Schlesinger (painter)

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Johann Schlesinger, portrait of the boy Ludwig Lang, 1822
Johann Schlesinger, Still Life with Bird's Nest and Grapes.

Johann Schlesinger , also Johannes Schlesinger (* 1768 in Ebertsheim , † January 18, 1840 in Sausenheim ) was a German painter .

Life

Johann Schlesinger was born as the son of the stone carver Johann Schlesinger and his wife Carolina born. Trübenbach, born in the Palatinate village of Ebertsheim. He learned the art of painting from his brother Johann Adam Schlesinger, who was nine years his senior . Grandfather Johann Trübenbach had also worked as a painter in the region.

Johann Schlesinger lived and worked mainly in Heidelberg and Mannheim . He often painted still lifes, but was also a sought-after portraitist. His Biedermeier portraits in particular have an extraordinary charm. In the directory of Charles de Graimberg's antiquity collection in Heidelberg Castle, his paintings from 1838 are listed and described: A portrait of the engineer and master builder Johann Andreas von Traitteur , the still life “Plums from the Neckar Gardens of Mannheim” and “The Singing Organ Player” , a genre representation .

Johann Schlesinger, portrait of Princess Amalie of Nassau-Weilburg ; Museum Grünstadt.

The directory also names a self-portrait of Johann Schlesinger, on which he is depicted at the age of 14, with:

“... simple, thick hair, black collar, yellow waistcoat, green tailcoat, with a small, hanging collar and yellow, decorated buttons; in his left hand holding a sheet of paper in an upper corner in front of him and in his right hand a brass sleeve with a red rose, with which he has just drawn the portrait of his little sister. "

- Description from the Heidelberg antiquity collection, 1838

The leaflet accompanying the exhibition by the painter Louis Coblitz in the Reiss Museum Mannheim in 1984 states that his contemporary Johann Schlesinger mainly painted fine fruit and flower still lifes in the Dutch tradition, on which there are often delicate depictions of animals such as lizards, beetles, butterflies or small ones Birds. In the Protestant church in Eisenberg (Palatinate) there are two oil portraits of the reformers Martin Luther and Huldreich Zwingli, which Johann Schlesinger made to order in 1817 for the 300th anniversary of the Reformation. For a long time they were in the Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer , but are now back in the church for which they were painted.

Johann Schlesinger's brother Johann Adam and his son Johann Jakob (1792–1855) were also well-known Palatinate painters. The three painters are very often confused, especially since they worked in the same geographical area and sometimes even together.

Johann Schlesinger, portraits of Barbara and Jacob Louis and their nephew Valentin Heuser

literature

  • Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt. City administration Grünstadt, 1975.

Web links

Commons : Johann Schlesinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the Schlesinger portrait of Andreas von Traitteur
  2. ↑ On the Schlesinger Still Life "Plums from the Neckar Gardens"
  3. ↑ Description of the Schlesinger picture "The Singing Organ Player"
  4. ^ Self-portrait by Johann Schlesinger in the Graimberg collection in Heidelberg
  5. ^ About Johann Schlesinger, in the booklet accompanying the Coblitz exhibition, Reiss Museum, Mannheim, 1984
  6. ^ Museum of the Palatinate
  7. ↑ Newspaper report from 2000, which mentions Eisenberg's Schlesinger pictures and shows them in miniatures
personal data
SURNAME Schlesinger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlesinger, Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebertsheim
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1840
Place of death Sausenheim