Johann Christian Fiedler
Johann Christian Fiedler ( born October 31, 1697 in Pirna, † September 5, 1765 or 1768 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter.
Life and work
Johann Christian Fiedler was a son of Mr and Mrs John and Eva Fiedler. His father was a malt and brew master, the mother came from the Board -performance, long-established family Pirnaer Fritzsche. Johann Christian Fiedler initially graduated from the grammar school in his native city, and studied from 1715 rights in Leipzig, then became interested in but more for art. In 1717 he began to paint miniatures, which he presented in 1719 on the Brunswick Fair. After returning to Leipzig, he tried autodidact at the oil painting; in 1720 he went with the support of Duke August Wilhelm of Braunschweig to Paris and trained at Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillière painter. Then he should take up a post as court painter in Wolfenbüttel. His journey took him home in 1724, however, over Darmstadt, where he made the acquaintance of the local Landgrave and received another offer, which should earn him 400 florins a year.
From 1725 he lived and worked in Darmstadt, where he was court painter, initially under the Landgrave of Hesse -Darmstadt, Ernst Ludwig, and then under his son and successor of Louis VIII.
Fiedler is the circle of Frankfurt " Goethe- painter" attributed. He was a friend of Johann Alexander Thiele, whom he portrayed in an oil painting. This picture was 2009 in the Dresden exhibition ideals - for Dresden to see paintings from the 18th century - longing and reality.
Comes a self-portrait that shows him painting on a portrait of Landgrave Ludwig VIII from the year 1752. This painting was known for a long time from written sources, but lost. Since 2008 it is located in the Hunting Lodge Museum crane stone. It is among the few images that Fiedler signed and dated.
In addition to portraits of high-ranking personalities and numerous self-portraits painted Fiedler among other things, a burial of Christ, the seasons and several still lifes.
Fiedler, who suffered from lithiasis and gout from his age of 40, should have died of consumption. He was buried next to the Darmstadt's town church. The grave was adorned with a monument that the court sculptor Eckhard had designed. It was his portrait in a medallion and a personalized stop time and a genius with palette and wore except names and dates the inscription:
Who knows its size, must be earned tears The ashes of my friend 's and my favorite of honor, He was what are little, the truck strict enemy, A unfeigned Christian, a true philanthropist; In life, he was tall, death without trembling, Those like Fiedler lives, the can shake no cross.
The painter Karl Friedrich Hirschberg was a nephew Fiedler. He was court painter in Buchsweiler. For Fiedler students included Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel.