Paul Juvenell the Elder
Paul Juvenell the Elder (* 1579 ; † 1643 in Preßburg ; also Juvenel Paulus the Elder ) was a Nuremberg painter who was best known for his Dürer copies .
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Life
At first he was a student of his father Nikolaus Juvenell and then continued his training under Adam Elsheimer in Frankfurt .
Juvenell worked as a church painter, for example. B. in Heroldsberg in the church of St. Matthew. There he designed the altar wings. They show Paradise with the Fall and the exaltation of the brazen serpent by Moses .
The painting The Savior holds the Last Supper with his disciples, begun by his teacher Adam Adelsheimer († 1620 in Rome), he completed in 1621 with the architecture and the background.
Furthermore, he designed 13 ceiling paintings in the small hall of the Nuremberg town hall , which depict the emperor surrounded by the virtues or scenes from Roman history.
Other works include portraits of Emperors Ferdinand II , Matthias , Rudolf II and the Rex Romanorum Rudolf I. These portraits also hang in the Nuremberg town hall.
Juvenell made copies of Dürer's Assumption of Mary and scenes from the life of Mary, based on woodcuts by Dürer.
Juvenell moved to Vienna in 1638 and from there to Preßburg, where he also died.
His four children, three boys and a girl also became painters.
literature
- Rudolf Bergau: Juvenel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 762 f.
- Kurt Pilz: Juvenel, Paulus the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 712 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ DIRECTORY OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG .... Nuremberg, at the obligated auctionator Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 13
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Juvenell, Paul the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juvenel, Paulus the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nuremberg painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1579 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1643 |
| Place of death | Pressburg |