Johann Zacharias Kneller

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Self-Portrait (dated 1684)

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

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Albert TeichmannMarquard, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 416 f.
  3. Jaacks: Faces and Personalities. Inventory catalog of the painting collection in the Museum of Hamburg History. Part 1.
  4. Illustration and description
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