Johann Zacharias Kneller
Johann Zacharias Kneller , actually Kniller , also John Zachary Kneller (born October 6, 1644 in Lübeck , † 1702 in London ), was a German painter who last worked in London.
Life
Kneller came from a Lübeck family of artists; he was the eldest son of the Lübeck painter and master craftsman at the Katharinenkirche Zacharias Kniller and his wife Lucia, nee. Booty. The painter Gottfried Kniller / Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723) and the organist and composer Andreas Kneller (1649–1724) were his brothers. Nothing is known about his training; he is said to have traveled to Rome with his brother and worked in Hamburg; In 1676 he followed his far more successful brother to London and worked with him in a workshop community as a landscape, architecture, decoration, still life and portrait painter. He reproduced some of his brother's celebrated portraits as watercolors and miniatures.
The brothers lived on the northeast corner of the piazza in the center of Covent Garden until the death of Johann Zacharias Kneller in 1702 . Johann Zacharias Kneller was buried in St. Paul's Covent Garden .
Works
- The young scholar (1668), painted together with his brother's old scholar as a couple for the Lübeck City Library , today in the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck
- Johann Marquard , originally in the Lübeck City Library , today in the Mayor's Gallery in Lübeck City Hall
- Peter Marquard (around 1670), Museum of Hamburg History
- Epitaph for Zacharias Kniller (1676), together with his brother, Katharinenkirche Lübeck
- King William III. , Miniature, Victoria & Albert Museum
- another miniature portrait of King Williams III. (13.1 × 10.4 cm), which was in the State Museum in Schwerin , has been missing since the end of the Second World War.
literature
- Kneller, Johann Zacharias . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 600 .
- Gisela Jaacks : faces and personalities. Inventory catalog of the painting collection in the Museum of Hamburg History. Volume 1: Oil paintings, pastels, miniatures, watercolors and drawings. Museum of Hamburg History, Hamburg 1992, p. 138.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Noble, James Granger: A biographical history of England, from the revolution to the end of George I's reign ... W. Richardson, London 1806, p. 292.
- ^ Albert Teichmann : Marquard, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 416 f.
- ↑ Jaacks: Faces and Personalities. Inventory catalog of the painting collection in the Museum of Hamburg History. Part 1.
- ↑ Illustration and description
- ↑ Entry ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Lost Art Internet Database.
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SURNAME | Kneller, Johann Zacharias |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kniller, Johann Zacharias (real name); Kneller, John Zachary |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, most recently working in London |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1644 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
DATE OF DEATH | 1702 |
Place of death | London |