Julius Heinsius

Johann Julius Heinsius (born February 7, 1740 in Hildburghausen , † May 19, 1812 in Orléans ) was a German painter. He was among other things for the daughters of Louis XV. mainly active as a portrait painter in Paris , he mostly painted in large format in oil , but also in miniature .

Life

Johann Julius Heinsius was the brother of the painter Johann Ernst Heinsius . This close relationship has often led to mix-ups and incorrect assignments of works in art historiography, although the résumés of both brothers are known by the end of the 1930s at the latest, which was ensured by the 1937 dissertation by Hedwig Dauch-Schroeder, which was published in 1940. It probably began with Charles Oulmont and his Heinsius biography, first published in Paris in 1913.

Johann Julius Heinsius, also called Jean Jules , made a career at court in France from 1779 and exhibited regularly in the salons. Before that he was in the Netherlands from 1752 onwards . B. active in The Hague and Utrecht . Through the French Revolution and associated with the beheading of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette , Heinsius felt compelled to leave Paris and go to Orleans, although he later carried out orders in Paris under Napoleon .

literature

Walther Scheidig : Heinsius, Johann Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 442 ( digitized version ).
Hedwig Dauch-Schroeder: Johann Ernst Heinsius (1731–1794). A Thuringian portrait painter from the time of Goethe. 1940.

Web links

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

Heinsius' portrait of a young gentleman with a walking stick on the website of the German Federal Office for Central Services for unresolved property issues

Individual evidence

↑ Other information refer to Ilmenau or Weimar as the place of birth.
↑ Werner Schneiders: The German and the French Heinsius. Questions for an 18th Century Portrait. In: The Eighteenth Century: Journal of the German Society for Research in the Eighteenth Century, 23/1 (1999), p. 79 ff.
↑ Walther Scheidig : Heinsius, Johann Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 442 ( digitized version ).
^ Charles Oulmont: JE Heinsius (1740-1812) - Peintre de Mesdames de France. Ed. Istra, Paris / Strasbourg, 2nd edition, 1970 (first edition Paris 1913).

personal data
SURNAME	Heinsius, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heinsius, Johann Julius (full name); Heinsius, Jean Jules (French name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH	May 19, 1812
Place of death	Orleans

[1] Other information refer to Ilmenau or Weimar as the place of birth.

[2] Werner Schneiders: The German and the French Heinsius. Questions for an 18th Century Portrait. In: The Eighteenth Century: Journal of the German Society for Research in the Eighteenth Century, 23/1 (1999), p. 79 ff.

[3] Walther Scheidig : Heinsius, Johann Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 442 ( digitized version ).

[4] Charles Oulmont: JE Heinsius (1740-1812) - Peintre de Mesdames de France. Ed. Istra, Paris / Strasbourg, 2nd edition, 1970 (first edition Paris 1913).