Jan Kryštof Liška

Johann Christoph Lischka ( czech January Kristof Liska; * 1650 in Breslau, † August 23 1712 in Leubus in Silesia ) was a painter of the Baroque.

Life

About Johann Christoph Lischka's year of birth, there is conflicting information. He came from the Moravian aristocratic family of rotting wood. His father was an Austrian imperial court agent in Wroclaw, but died soon. Lischka's mother, Helena Regina 's second marriage was in 1662 the painter Michael Willmann. Lischka was a pupil of his stepfather and took his promotion 1674-1680 study trips to Italy. Between 1689 and 1708 he worked in Prague and other places in Bohemia, where he was referred to as the " young Willmann ". After Will 's death in 1706 he took over the workshop in Leubus monastery. His clients were mostly Cistercian monasteries and other religious institutions. In addition to numerous large altarpieces and murals he also produced drawings as models for engravings. After Lischka's death, his friend Wenzel Lorenz Reiner completed several works begun by him.

Works in Bohemia

In Prague

• St. Nicholas, Lesser Town altarpie
• Kreuzherrenkirche: Main altarpiece stigmatization of St. Francis ( 1701)
• Ursulinerinnenkirche ( Kostel svaté Voršily ): Main altarpiece of St. Ursula
• Strahov Monastery (Strahovsky klášter ), Monastery Church: altar painting

In other places

• Doksan, Monastery Church: page altarpiece St. Augustine
• Miinchengratz, Anne chapel altarpiece St. Anthony, St. Francis, Epiphany
• Ossegg, monastery church main altar painting Beheading of St. Paul ( 1695)
• Plaß, monastery church ceiling fresco trump the Church of the Gentiles, and altarpiece St. Magdalena (1692 )
• Sedlec monastery, monastery church altarpiece St. Vincent and St. Benedict

Works in Silesia

• Wrocław, Collegiate Holy Cross ( Kościół Św Krzyża. ): Paintings Finding of the Holy Cross by St. Helena
• Grüssau, St. Joseph's Church ( Kościół bracki Św Józefa. ) Murals (along with Michael Willmann and Michael Willmann the Younger )
• Heinrichau, Cistercian Monastery Church: side altar paintings; Painting Mother of God with God the Father and the Holy Spirit and Angel of the Annunciation
• Kamenz, Monastery Church of the Assumption ( Kościół Wniebowzięci NMP): paintings death of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica in the crown ( 1708)

Artworks in galleries

• Dresden: Achilles with the head of Pompey