Johannes Herrmann (painter)

Johannes Herrmann (* around 1744; † 1807 in Rottenburg ) was a German painter.

Life and works

Johannes Herrmann lived married in Rottenburg from 1774. In 1777 he created paintings for new altars in Steinach and in 1781 an imperial portrait for Rottenburg. In 1786 he was commissioned to paint altar leaves for the church of St. Arbogast in Haslach in the Kinzig valley for 50 guilders. His donation of the rosary by the Mother of God to St. Dominic with Catherine of Siena as well as his martyrdom of St. Sebastian were later placed in the city archives, the upper images of the altars - a representation of the Archangel Michael and a picture of St. Agatha - were brought to the sacristy for safekeeping.

Joseph Meisburger had made these altars three years earlier for the church of the Charterhouse Freiburg and now suggested to the Haslachers that they buy these used altars, which happened to have the right dimensions for the Haslach church, cheaply and have the altar leaves modified. In their original state, these showed saints of the Carthusian Order in plastered bas-relief . This deal was actually accepted and Herrmann - or Hörrmann, as he wrote himself in the relevant contract - also agreed to accept only 30 guilders in cash instead of paying the full amount of 50 guilders in cash and to accept Saints Bruno and Hugo , which were not used in Haslach to take over as equivalent for the remaining 20 guilders.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Brommer , Haslach im Kinzigtal , Munich / Zurich 1978 (= Schnell, Art Guide No. 1144), p. 13
2. ^ Joseph L. Wohleb, Die Kinzigtäler Kirchenbauten of the Fürstenberg architect Franz Joseph Salzmann (1724–1780) , in: Die Ortenau 31, 1951, pp. 51–70, here p. 67 f. ( Digitized version )