Michael Conrad Hirt

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Michael Conrad Hirt, self-portrait

Michael Conrad Hirt (born May 25 . Jul / 4. June  1613 greg. In Bayreuth ; † 25. April 1671 ) was a German painter of the Baroque .

Life

After an apprenticeship with the Bayreuth court painter Heinrich Bollandt , he came to Lübeck as a war refugee in 1635 and was accepted into the house of councilor Adrian Müller . After Müller's death in 1644, Hirt was appointed court painter by the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . In Berlin he also worked on the reconstruction of the royal residence . Around 1663 Hirt returned to his Franconian homeland and stayed in Kulmbach and Bayreuth.

Hirt was married twice, first from 1638 to Anna Maria Bollandt, the daughter of his teacher, then after her death to a daughter of the Berlin cantor Johann Crüger , whom he also portrayed. Several of his sons from both marriages were also painters, including Johann Conrad Hirt, born in 1641, and Michael Conrad Hirt (1649–1704), who worked a lot in Regensburg and whose identity with his father has repeatedly led to confusion and incorrect attributions.

Works

Anna Rosinea Marquardt, b. Tanck
Jakob Kockert with his son, 1644

During his time in Lübeck, Hirt distinguished himself primarily as a portrait painter. There are eleven portraits and two self-portraits. His portraits in Lübeck served above all to present themselves to a bourgeois upper class who felt they were equal to the nobility (which was actually the case with the members of the circle society ). He painted mayors , councilors and family members of the Tesdorpf family for their family foundation. Hirt's main work of the Lübeck years are several pictures commissioned by the mayor Anton Köhler for his Köhler ancestral gallery , a collection of 20 family portraits that underlined the status of the family and hung for a while in the Katharinenkirche , the church of the circle society, of which Köhler became a member however never succeeded. The St. Annen Museum in Lübeck owns the portraits of Agneta Köhler and Margreta Brömse, nee. Charcoal burner. In 2006, after an auction, a similar representation of Rosinea Tanck, the daughter of the syndic and cathedral provost Dr. Otto Tanck added. A miniature Hirts of her husband, the mayor Johann Marquard , was already in the museum's collection. It also keeps the portrait of Anna Bremer, born in its magazine. Bartels, from an epitaph in St. Mary's Church that was destroyed in 1942. Hirt's portraits of the mayors Johann Kampferbeke (1639) and Heinrich Köhler (1641) can be seen today in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall . In the Katharineum in Lübeck is the portrait of the sub-rector Jacob Kockert with his four-year-old son Johann from 1644.

A self-portrait from 1644 has survived as a drawing in Munich and as an etching based on the drawing in Coburg and Berlin.

Hirt was also active and successful as a portraitist in Berlin. There were also still lifes and the collaboration on the painting of the residence. His ceiling paintings in the "Duchess' House" were painted over after just a few decades. Many of his portraits were distributed as copper engravings by Joachim von Sandrart .

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Conrad Hirt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and sources

  1. ↑ Fehling No. 743: "Married to a daughter of Mayor Heinrich Köhler"
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Michael Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1671