Christopher Paudiß

Christoph (er) Paudiß (* 1630 in Lower Saxony, † 1666 in Freising, Bavaria ) was a Bavarian Baroque painter, and in his early years a pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam.

Life

After many stations, for example, in Stuttgart ( 1656), Prague, Dresden ( 1659-1660 ), Vienna and Salzburg, he has been the last four years of his life court painter to the Prince-Bishop Albrecht Sigmund von Freising. He was married twice. Throughout his life he had to struggle with economic difficulties. He died shortly after he had withdrawn his promotion during a ( lost of Paudiß ) Artist Competition of the Prince-Bishop.

Work

His paintings and frescoes often depict gloomy designed everyday motifs. He was based on the art of Rembrandt. Famous are his genre pictures, Bauer histories and still lifes; Portraits he painted, however, rare. The Freising Diocesan Museum has the largest collection of his paintings ( 15, of which five loans ). There was in 2007 an exhibition Christopher Paudiß - The Bavarian Rembrandt? instead.

List

(Selection)

• Portrait of a young man with a fur cap, 1660 ( Hermitage, St. Petersburg since at least 1859)
• Portrait of a Man, Private collection, about 1661 (Budapest)
• The old farmer with the calf and the butcher, 1662 ( Domberg Freising )
• Frierende children
• The Marauder
• Self Portrait
• Portrait of a brigand in a high cap. Oil on canvas, 59 × 51.5 cm ( Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden, Cat 1930, No 1995, that image was the focus of a looted art hearing in 2001)
• Old farmer with shouldered calf, young woman and goat to 1663/1664, canvas 170 x 234 cm, signed lower left " Christofher Paudiß " Alte Pinakothek Munich, Inv 15168 ( issued )
• Kitchen Still Life, 55 cm × 69.5 cm
• Kitchen table with whistle, herring and beer
• Expulsion of the merchants from the temple, in 1665, former high altarpiece of the Benediktuskirche Freising ( Freising Domberg )
• Return home from the market
• St. Jerome, 1656/58
• The Martyrdom of Saint Thimeo
• Loth and his Daughters, 1649