Tadeusz Kuntze

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Tadeusz Kuntze , painting by Irena Bierwiaczonek-Polak (1951–2009)

Tadeusz Kuntze , also Thaddäus Kuntz, Tadeusz Konicz, Taddeo Polacco, Tadeus Kuntze and in other name variants (born April 20, 1727 in Grünberg , Lower Silesia , countries of the Bohemian Crown ; † May 8, 1793 in Rome , Papal States ), was a Silesian painter of the Baroque and Rococo , who spent most of his life in Rome.

Life

Kuntze, son of the Grünberger Stadtmusicus Gottfried Kuntze (1687–1762) and his wife Anna Maria, née Sambler (1699–1753), grew up in Grünberg. The Peace of Berlin made his hometown Prussian in 1742 . In 1746 he came to Cracow . Thanks to the favor of the Bishop of Kraków, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski , he was sent to Rome in 1747 to train as a painter. From 1748 to 1752 he attended the Académie de France there . He later became a student of the painter Ludovico Mazzanti (1686–1775) and the Accademia di San Luca , the forerunner of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma , which made him familiar with the techniques of wall painting . In 1754 he stayed in Krakow again as an episcopal court painter . During this time altarpieces were created for the Wawel Cathedral and a representation of Fortuna , now in the National Museum in Warsaw . In 1756 he traveled to Paris , in 1757 he returned to the court of his patron Załuski. After he died at the end of 1758, he went to Spain at the suggestion of Corrado Giaquinto .

Fortuna , 1754, National Museum Warsaw
The Death of Priam , 1756, Wawel Castle

In 1765, at the latest in 1766, he was back in Rome and lived there until the end of his life. For the next twelve years he established himself as a painter for the Augustinian order . Francisco de Goya was a guest in his apartment . He also associated with other Spanish artists of the Cultura di Via Condotti . In addition to Rome, he worked in various places in Lazio and created significant frescoes in palaces and churches. In particular, he was promoted by the British cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart , a son of the Polish Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska and grandson of Jacob II. As Bishop of Frascati , he engaged him for frescoes in the Seminario Tuscolano and in the Bishop's Palace of Frascati , as well as for paintings in the Church of St. Stanislaus , the national church of Poles in Rome. In addition, Kuntze managed to attract the interest of the aristocratic Borghese family and to be commissioned with work for the Palazzo Borghese and the Casino Borghese .

In 1775 Kuntze married Anna Valentini, the daughter of a carpenter. The couple had two sons, Antonio (1785–1809) and Pietro Kun [t] ze (1793–1863), both later painters, as well as their daughter Elisabeth [Isabel] Kuntz [e] Valentini († 1866), who became Spanish in 1810 Court painter José de Madrazo y Agudo married and thus became an ancestor of an artist dynasty. The painters Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz , Pedro de Madrazo y Kuntz (1816–1898) and Luis de Madrazo y Kuntz (1825–1897) were her sons, the painter Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841–1920) her grandson, the universal artist Mariano Fortuny her great grandson.

Kuntze's Italian nickname Taddeo Polacco led to the interpretation that he was a Pole . Polish history books called him "the most famous Polish painter of the 18th century".

literature

  • Kamila Maria Szparkowska: Tadeusz Kuntze, il Taddeo polaco, el gran pintor europeo del siglo XVIII y sus conexiones con España . Dissertation, Madrid 2016 ( PDF ).
  • Marian Wnuk: W sprawie daty urodzenia Tadeusza Kuntzego . In: Biuletyn Historii Sztuki , LXII, No. 3-4, Warsaw 2000, pp. 631-637.
  • Anna Lewicka-Morawska: Slownik malarzy polskich . Warsaw 1998, Volume I, p. 96 f.
  • Halina Andrzejewska (Ed.): Polish painting . Warsaw 1997, p. 36 f.
  • Andrzej Ryszkiewicz: Tadeusz Kuntze . In: The Dictionary of Art . Grove, Volume XVIII, London / New York 1996, p. 523.
  • Marian Wnuk: Drugi okres rzymski Tadeusza Kuntzego w świetle materiałów z Archivio Storico del Vicariato al Laterano . In: Biuletyn Historii Sztuki , LVII, No. 1-2, Warsaw 1995, p. 115 f.
  • Erich Schleier : L'ultimo pittore del Rococò a Roma: opere sconosciute di Thaddäus Kuntz . In: Arte Illustrata . Volume III, No. 27-29, 1970, pp. 93, 101.
  • Janusz Koniusz: Taddeo Polacco z Zielonej Góry . Zielona Góra 1960, pp. 10, 31.
  • Friedrich Noack : Kuntz, Thaddäus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 117 .
  • Friedrich Noack: The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Volume 2, Berlin / Leipzig 1927, p. 340.
  • Friedrich Noack: German life in Rome 1700 to 1900 . Stuttgart / Berlin 1907, p. 412.
  • Henryk Piątkowski: Konicz, Tadeusz . In: Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna Ilustrowana . Volume 37-38, Warsaw 1905, p. 595.
  • Edward Rastawiecki: Konicz, Tadeusz (Kuntze) . In: Słownik malarzów polskich tudzież obcych w Polsce osiadłych lub czasowo w niej przebywających . Volume 1, Warsaw 1850, p. 229.

Web links

Commons : Tadeusz Kuntze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Hinrichsen: The invention of Ziemia Lubuska. Construction and appropriation of a Polish region 1945–1975 . V & R unipress, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-84710-654-8 , p. 75 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Kuntze, Tadeusz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuntz, Thaddäus; Konicz, Tadeusz; Polacco, Taddeo; Kuntze, Tadeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian painter in Rome
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1793
Place of death Rome