Christoph Schwarz

Christoph Schwartz, also black ( * 1548 in Munich, † April 15, 1592 ibid ) was a court painter in Munich.

Schwartz was born about 1548, the son of a goldsmith in Munich, where he was trained from 1560 to 1566 with Melchior Bocksberger painter and fresco painter. During his wanderings he came in 1566 and Augsburg. In 1569 he got the civil rights and master of Munich awarded. In 1570 he went to Venice, where he took many influences of Venetian painting, which he made ​​known in Bavaria. After three years he returned again in 1573 and first city, a year later court painter in Munich. He was, among other orders of the Fugger family, for whom he painted the altarpiece Mary in 1584 with baby Jesus on clouds. Definitely was the art work for the Jesuit Church of St. Salvator, the present-day St. Anna im Lehel in Munich. For Octavian Secundus Fugger, he painted an altarpiece for the Benediktuskapelle in St. Ulrich and Afra, today's St. George's Chapel. This work, however, was only planned and begun by Schwartz, it is obtained a handwritten draft, completed and signed, the altarpiece was, however, of but by Peter Candid.

In the Munich Renaissance church of St. Michael the high altar painting " St. depends Michael fighting with the devil "by 1587th

In the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the "Death of Adonis " of about 1570/1580 ( Inv.. No. GG 3827. ) Depends ( copy of a drawing in the University Library Würzburg, Delin. VII, 5.23 ).