Jan Jiří Heinsch

Johann Georg Heinsch (also: Johann Georg Hein sealed; Czech: Jan Jiří Heinsch; * probably in Glatz in 1647, † September 9, 1712 in Prague) was a German - Bohemian Baroque painter.

Life

Johann Georg Heinsch was the son of Glatzer royal clerk and aldermen Joachim Franz Heinsch. His birth year 1647 is not occupied. Also a lack of reliable data on his education. About his resume, there are very contradictory. By 1678 he was a resident of much creative artist, wealthy artist in Prague, where he had acquired the rights of citizenship. After the death of his first wife in 1702, he joined the monastery of the Barefooted Augustinians in Bela pod Bezdězem a he but left again before the end of the novitiate. His second wife, whom he married in 1704, was a citizen daughter.

His artistic role model to have been the famous Baroque painter Karl Skreta. Heinsch painted numerous altarpieces in the conventional style, mainly for Prague churches. Clients were mainly the monasteries of the Jesuits, the Cross and the Augustinians. Many of his works were in monastic churches, which were repealed during the Josephine reforms. Some of these paintings are considered to be lost, others are still preserved in museums, such as the National Gallery in Prague and in the City Galleries of Raudnitz and Velvary.

Works in churches

Prague

• St. Ignatius Church ( Kostel sv Ignáce. ): High altarpiece with St. Ignatius of the Holy Trinity ( 1687 ); Translation of St. Wenceslas (1692 )
• St. Apollinaris; Karl Hofer Madonna ' Mater Verbi incarnati ' (1697 )
• St. Henry ( Kostel svatého Jindřicha ): St. Henry and St. Cunegonde ( 1698 )
• St. James ( Kostel svatého Jakuba ): altarpiece Holy Kinship ( 1702)
• Tyn Church: St. Joseph with the Child (1685 )
• Kreuzherrenkirche: Blessed Agnes of Bohemia (after 1687 )
• George's Church: Assumption of the Virgin (1688 )
• Jesuit Church of St. Salvator: St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier (1710 )

Outside of Prague

• Bohemian Leipa, All Saints: Altar painting
• Brno, St. Thomas Church: St. sorrow ( 1687 )
• Chloumek u Luže, Jesuit Church: Assumption of Mary, and seven more images
• Klattau, Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius: paintings of the side altars
• Nový Bydžov, Dean Church: Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1683 )
• St. John under the rock altar painting " The encounter of John the Baptist with St. Ivan " ( 1695)
• Hungarian Hradisch, Jesuit Church: St. Francis Xavier baptizing a Moorish Prince (1689 )