Lorenz Koch

Lorenz Koch (* 1661 in Höhenrain ; † 1729 in Eichstätt ) was a German painter and court painter of the Baroque period in the Hochstift Eichstätt.

Life

He was first mentioned as court painter to the prince-bishop's court in Eichstätt in 1699, when his court protection was extended by two years. He was married to a certain Maria Anna. In 1722 the now widowed but still “busy master” (Neuhofer 1962/64, p. 47) bought the property at Pedettistraße 5 (formerly Rosengasse B 174), where his brother-in-law, the Inner Councilor and cloth cutter Reichard Beck (h) had lived. The four children of Koch sold the "father's house" in 1730 (demolished in 1979).

In the year after Koch's death, the artful painter and probably Koch's student Joseph Dietrich (* 1696; † 1745) took over the workshop and married Koch's daughter Anna Maria.

Works

• Gilding of the high altar and other ornaments of the Eichstätter hospital church (1701/03)
• Version of three figures from the high altar of the Michaelskapelle in Berching (1702)
• Setting of three figures from Christian Handschuher's sculpture workshop for the collegiate church St. Emmeram in a gap and setting of the high altar there (1701)
• (Unspecified) painting work in the church of Pfalzpaint (1710)
• Silver frame of two half-length portraits by the sculptor Willibald Anton Handschuher for the church of Sappenfeld (1715)
• Various painting works (Holy Spirit, St. Mary, St. Joseph) as well as the version of the pulpit of the church of Wolkertshofen (1715)
• Version of the high altars of the church of Adelschlag (1717/18; attribution)
• Altarpieces on the side altars and frames for all three altars in the church of Biesenhard (1718)
• Ceiling frescoes of the church of Hitzhofen (1722; attribution) and setting of two crucifixes and gilding of two clock hands of this church (1722; archival evidence)
• Antependia of the three altars of the church of Petersbuch , the high altar antependium painted by him on both sides (1723)

literature

• Theodor Neuhofer: Contributions to the art history of the district of Eichstätt. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 60 (1962/64), p. 47; 61 (1965/66), pp. 35, 42, 55, 84, 89
• Hugo A. Braun: The hospital church of the Holy Spirit in Eichstätt . In: Heilig-Geist-Spital Eichstätt. Eichstätt 1978, pp. 71-80, p. 78
• Gabriele Schmid: The Eichstätter Hofbaumeister Jakob Engel (1632-1714). A contribution to southern German building history after the Thirty Years' War. Augsburg: AV-Verlag 1987, ISBN 3925274103 (also Diss. University of Eichstätt 1987), pp. 145, 199, 211
• Magdalena Schick: From gate to gate. House and social history of the core city of Eichstätt . Eichstätt: Historical Association 2009, p. 203