Justus Juncker

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Justus Juncker (born July 24, 1703 in Mainz , † June 15, 1767 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German genre and flower painter.

Quodlibet with self-portrait 1732
Justus Juncker: Still Life with Cherries and Apricots, 1761

Life

Juncker was a student of the facade painter Hugo Schlegel (1679–1737) in Frankfurt am Main , with whom Christian Georg Schütz the Elder also worked Ä. learned. He was subsequently influenced by works of art in the collection of Baron von Haeckel . He took paintings by Thomas Wyk as a model. He worked in London for some time . In 1723 he moved to Frankfurt and became a Beisasse there in 1726 .

Juncker was one of the artists Johann Caspar Goethe employed to furnish his house in the Großer Hirschgraben . Johann Wolfgang Goethe describes the creation of two flower still lifes by the painter for his parents' house in poetry and truth . Juncker's students include his son Isaak Juncker , born in Frankfurt am Main in 1727, and his son-in-law Johann Daniel Bager, born in Wiesbaden in 1734 .

Works by Juncker can be seen in the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt am Main and in the Städel . The Old Masters Picture Gallery in Kassel houses numerous interior studies and portraits, some of which were acquired by Landgrave Wilhelm VIII during the artist's lifetime .

In 2015, the American artist John Baldessari used a still life by Juncker from 1765 Pear with Fly in the Städel in his work on 16 paintings in the museum. The The Städel Paintings shown are each juxtaposed with texts by the artist as diptychs .

literature

Web links

Commons : Justus Juncker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The banause is shot in FAZ from November 5, 2015, page 39