Zacharias Sunday

Zacharias Sonntag ( January 1, 1683 , † February 7, 1738 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter .

Sonntag had been a painter in Darmstadt since at least 1714 and was appointed hunting and court painter to the court of Landgrave Ernst Ludwig in 1717 . He painted still lifes , landscapes (partly with hunting scenes), seascapes and wallpaper pictures. His son and student Johann Tobias Sonntag (1716–1774) also worked as a painter in Darmstadt.

Works

• In the Darmstadt Castle Museum : a series of wallpaper images with hunting and nature scenes (formerly in the Mönchbruch hunting lodge , later in Wolfsgarten Castle ).
• In the Jagdschloss Kranichstein : Still life (groups of game birds); Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt on a hunting trip and the same on a hunting trip.

literature

• Kuno Graf von Hardenberg : The hunting lodge Kranichstein. Darmstadt 1918, pp. 33–36, 52, 53, 55 ff. And Fig.
• Catalog of the exhibition 200 years of Darmstadt art. The painters from 1730–1830. Darmstadt, Kunsthalle 1930.
• Ernst Emmerling: The history of Darmstadt painting. The court painters. 19th annual edition of the Society of Hessian Book Friends, Darmstadt 1936.
• Sunday, Zacharias . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 283 .

Web links

• Sunday, Zacharias. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).