Johann Daniel Bager

Johann Daniel Bager (* 1734 in Wiesbaden, † 1815 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German artist.

Bager " was portraiture, genre, landscape and fruit painter", which also became known as an etcher. He came from a widely branched Wiesbaden family of artists, from the builder also emerged. He emigrated to Frankfurt from, where he worked among other things as a teacher and became known as " Goethe painter". The poet Goethe called Bager in his autobiography My Life. Poetry and Truth as one of the artists who worked for his father and the king's lieutenant Count Thoranc ( 1719-1794 ). The Frankfurt art collector and pioneer of art history Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen designated Bager in a treatise on the artists of Frankfurt as a painter whose " vorzüglichstes talent -portraits may stand " and " Bager grinds also good very hardworking fruit pieces that are often been as beautiful as de Heem ". These were often counterparts that were given to match the interior of an apartment in order.