Peter Jakob Horemans

Court concert at Ismaning Castle (detail), around 1733

Peter Jakob Horemans (baptized October 26, 1700 in Antwerp , † August 3, 1776 in Munich ) was a Flemish painter .

The son of a notary received his training in Antwerp in 1716/17 with his brother Jan Josef Horemans . As part of his journey as a journeyman, he set off for Rome with a painter friend from Antwerp in 1724. In 1725 he settled in Munich. At first he lived with the sculptor Guillielmus de Grof . Probably after his marriage to a woman from Munich in 1727, he became an exempted painter under Elector Karl Albrecht . In 1769 he was appointed court painter.

In addition to still lifes and religious pictures, Horemans mainly painted portraits and group pictures of celebrations at the courts of the Bavarian electors Karl Albrecht and Max III. Joseph . Above all, he portrayed numerous court ladies . His most important commissions included the St. Georgi Knight Festival of 1729 and the furnishing of the Amalienburg hunting room in the Nymphenburg Palace Park in the 1730s. Here he created hunting images with accurate reproduction of contemporary costumes. In 1760 he painted the Bavarian family and the Saxon family living in exile in Munich during the Seven Years' War in a group picture in front of the Ismaning Castle summer residence .

Although regularly paid since 1765, Horemans died in poverty in 1776. In the last years of his life he was no longer able to practice his profession due to partial blindness, and his paintings no longer sold well. He was buried in the cemetery of the Salvator Church, which was abandoned in 1789 .

literature

• Johann Georg von Hohenzollern (ed.): Peter Jakob Horemans (1700–1776). Bavarian court painter. Munich, special exhibition Alte Pinakothek, May 7th - November 3rd 1974. Bayerisch Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 1974.

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1. ↑ "courtyard-free"