Wenzel Lorenz Reiner

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Wenzel Lorenz Reiner (Czech: Václav Vavřinec Reiner ) (born August 8, 1689 in Prague ; † October 9, 1743 ibid) was an important painter and fresco artist of the Baroque in Bohemia .

Life

Wenzel Lorenz Reiner was baptized on August 8, 1689 in the St. Gallus Church in Prague ( Kostel svatého Havla ). He came from an artistic family. His grandfather Martin Reiner was a well-known master builder. He received his first training from his father Josef Reiner, who worked as a sculptor in Prague. He then became a student of the painters Peter Johann Brandl and Michael Wenzel Halbax ( Halwachs ) and, after 1705, of Anton Ferdinand Schweiger. At a young age he set up a painting workshop and became a member of the Prague Painters' Society. His work was also influenced by the painter Michael Willmann , who worked in Silesia . His earliest frescoes include the martyrs of the apostles, which he created for the monastery church in Osek in 1714 . The Last Judgment in the Prague Kreuzherrskirche from the years 1722–1723 is said to be his main work .

Reiner was one of the most important artists of the Bohemian Baroque. In addition to panel and altar paintings, he created monumental battle and landscape paintings and also worked as a fresco artist , using the works of Johann Christoph Lischka as a model. The ceiling paintings were often created in collaboration with Franz Maximilian Kaňka and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer . In addition to some assignments in Silesia and Austria, he was mainly active in Bohemia.

After 1730 he came under the influence of Cosmas Damian Asam , whom he met while decorating the St. Hedwig's Church in Wahlstadt and through whom he anticipated elements of the future Rococo style .

family

On November 21, 1725, Wenzel Lorenz Reiner married Anna Veronika Herzog, a bourgeois daughter from Prague. The wedding ceremony took place in the Kreuzherrenkirche by the then Grand Master General Mathäus Böhmb. The marriage had five children. He found his final resting place in the side aisle of St. Aegidius Church in Prague's old town .

Works

In Prague

  • All Saints Chapel in the Old Royal Palace: main altar painting
  • Kreuzherrenkirche : frescoes and dome paintings
  • Church of Our Lady of the Snow ( Kostel Panny Marie Sněžné ): main altar painting "Annunciation"
  • Loreto pilgrimage site on the Hradschin : ceiling fresco in the Church of the Nativity of Christ
  • St. Aegidius ( Kostel svatého Jilji ): ceiling fresco and other paintings
  • St. George's Church ( Bazilika svatého Jiři ): main altar painting and dome fresco
  • St. Henry's Church ( Kostel svatého Jindřicha ): two altar paintings
  • St. Jacobs Church ( Kostel svatého Jakuba ): painting
  • Church of St. Catherine in the former Augustinian convent ( Kostel svaté Kateříny ): almost all of the wall paintings
  • St. Thomas Church ( Kostel svatého Tomáše ): ceiling fresco
  • White Mountain ( Bílá Hora ): ceiling frescoes in the Marian pilgrimage church
  • Palais Czernin : painting fall of the giants in the stairwell
  • Vrtba Palace and Vrtba Garden ( Vrtbovský palac ze zahradou ): frescoes of the Sala terrena

In other places in Bohemia

In Silesia

  • Optional place : side altars in the church of St. Cross and St. Hedwig:
    • Descent from the Cross of the Mother of Sorrows
    • Apotheosis of St. Benedict
    • St. Adalbert on the Green Mountain performs the rain miracle
    • Martyrdom of St. Margaret
  • Breslau : frescoes in the Hochberg chapel of the St. Vincent Church

In Austria

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Wenzel Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiner, Václav Vavřinec
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baroque painter in Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1743
Place of death Prague