Johann Christoph Rincklake

Johann Christoph Rincklake (* October 19, 1764 in Harsewinkel, † June 19, 1813 in Münster ) was a German portrait painter of the Romantic period.

Life

Rincklake was born the son of a carpenter. After vocational training, he began his artistic training. In 1800 he married Marianne Wermerskirch, with whom he had five children. Together they lived in Münster.

In the international art history Rincklake has a high priority. As a student, he visited the painter academies of Berlin, Vienna, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf and lingered on every few years.

The birthplace of Johann Christoph Rincklake stood in Harsewinkel to May 2005. From there, it was translocated by Marienfeld. It was built in the summer of 2005 near the former Cistercian monastery again.

Works

Rincklake portrayed famous aristocratic and bourgeois personalities from the Treaty of Westphalia. Franz von Furstenberg, Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Freiherr vom Stein and Princess Pauline of Lippe were painted by him as well as numerous families from Münster and the last abbot of the monastery of Marienfeld. But as a portrait painter he immortalized the " little" people: the innkeeper's daughter, the son of the locksmith, the baker of the cathedral chapter, the tutor or the singer of the Prince Bishop's chapel. A large number of images is cataloged, other images, however, are lost.

In the Landesmuseum in Münster some pictures of Rincklake are seen.

Gallery

Abbot Peter of Hatzfeld

Portrait of an elderly gentleman in Dutch traditional costume

A hunting dog lying

Portrait of Maria Apollonia Arnoldina Henriette v. Borggreve, Ms. Clemens-August II by Detten

Sibylla Katharina Schücking born bush

Portrait of Rosine Alexandrine Baroness von Korff Schmising in the park