Johann Heinrich Schönfeld

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Schönfeld ( born March 23, 1609 Biberach an der Riss, † 1684 in Augsburg ) was a German Baroque painter.

Life

Johann Heinrich Schonfeld was born in 1609 as the son of Biberach goldsmith Johann Baptist Schönfeld. He was blind in his left eye since birth and did not need, which probably resulted in that he does not like many members of his family, was trained as a goldsmith his right hand. Instead, he received training as a painter Caspar Sichelbein in Memmingen. Later he took walks to Stuttgart and Basel. In 1633 he fled before the Thirty Years War to Italy. 1633-1637 / 38 And he lived to study in Rome, and then to about 1649 in Naples. Then he lived in Dresden. 1651, he returned to Biberach. In slough near Ulm, he married Anna Elisabetha 1652 Ulmerin Strauss, with whom he had eight children. From 1652 he lived and worked in Augsburg, the citizens and master right was awarded to him in the same year.

In subsequent years, numerous paintings were created in many south German churches. Schonfeld is the most significant German Baroque painters in the second half of the 17th century. Besides paintings with religious content he painted mythology and genre scenes. He also left etchings and drawings.

A student Schönfeld, Johann Schmidtner, painted the famous Augsburg pilgrimage image Maria Knots.

Painting (selection)

• The Rape of the Sabine Women, 1640
• Solomon is anointed by Zadok the priest, to the King, 1657, oil on canvas
• Christ carrying the Cross and Christ's Deposition from the Cross, 1660, Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Augsburg
• Treasure seeker in Roman ruins, 1662, oil on canvas
• The Church Fathers Gregory and Jerome, hl. Bishops and monks, in 1669, a side chapel altarpiece in Salzburg Cathedral
• Josef hosted his brothers in Egypt, around 1670