Jobst Harrich

Jobst Harrich ( baptized September 30, 1579 in Nuremberg, buried April 11, 1617 ) was a Nuremberg painter and copyist.

Life

Jobst Harrich was the son of the carpenter and his wife Barbara Caspar Harrich. From 1594 to 1597 Harrich did an apprenticeship with the painter Martin Beheim ( not to be confused with the merchant Martin Behaim ). On November 20, 1604 he became a master. From 1609 to 1613 worked as Harrich Vorgeher. He trained the apprentices Georg Püler, Sebald Fischer, Sebastian Schütz, Christoph Gärtner and Matthew Mair. Harrich lived with his family at Bonersberg in today Schildgasse 26 in Nuremberg. According to him the Harrichstraße was named in his hometown.

Family

From the marriage with his wife, Esther, whom he had married in 1601, emerged four sons and two daughters. His son Wolfgang Harrich was also a painter.

Works

In 1613 he participated in the murals in the Great town hall in Nuremberg. He was regarded as a skilful copyist of Albrecht Dürer. In 1612 he was commissioned to copy Dürer Paumgartner Altar in the former monastery church of St. Catherine, before the originals passed into the possession of the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. The Frankfurt patrician Jacob Heller ordered in 1507 Albrecht Dürer an altar, the so-called Heller-Altar. It should be used for the decoration of the Dominican Church of Frankfurt (Ecclesiastes monastery) and the promotion of their own salvation. The church sold the main board in 1614 to Maximilian of Bavaria. This main board was destroyed by fire in 1729 at the Munich Residenz. Jobst Harrich but he created the altarpiece " Assumption " a copy. It is now in the Frankfurt Historical Museum.

One of his most famous paintings is "Jesus and the Adulteress ," which can be found in the Musee du Louvre in Paris.