Johann Friedrich Weitsch

Pasha Johann Friedrich Weitsch ( born October 16, 1723 in Hesse dam; † August 6, 1803 in Salzdahlum ) was a German landscape painter and draftsman.

• 2.1 Painting (selection)

Life

The son of the brick Deckers Daniel Weitsche († 1754) and of the prematurely deceased mother Anna Margaretha († 1737) visited a short time the Latin School in Osterwieck and was subsequently employed as a clerk in Wolfenbüttel. He resigned after three and a half years in the services of Captain von Blum in Braunschweig, before he became a soldier in 1744.

Activity as an artist

Weitsch trained during his military service, self-taught in the arts, including by copying paintings, with such success that he became in 1756 a porcelain painter in the manufacturer Fürstenberg. Since the 1760s, he also created oil paintings that show mainly landscapes of the Brunswick and surrounding areas of the resin.

1780 took Weitsch together with Johann Heinrich Ramberg a journey through the resin, the album with a dozen "Views from the resin " laid the foundation for study and scholarship of the later famous painter.

Weitsch worked occasionally as an art dealer and was for several decades the Stobwassersche lacquer ware factory in Braunschweig worked as a painter and instructor. He went on study trips to Kassel, Amsterdam and Bruges. In 1789 he was appointed inspector of the Gemäldegalerie in the ducal palace Salzdahlum. He took large share of the Braunschweiger spiritual life and corresponded with Gleim and Lessing.

Weitsch died 1803 in Salzdahlum. He was married in 1748 to Anna stop, after whose death he married in 1783 Sophie helmet battle. His son, Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758-1828) was also active as a painter and a portrait of his father in 1797 on an oil painting, which is now owned by the Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum. His younger son Johann Anton August Weitsch (1762-1841) was a painter and succeeded his father in 1803 as a gallery inspector in Castle Salzdahlum.

Honors

In 1784 he was appointed a member of the Dusseldorf Art Academy. Appointment as a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin was 1795.

Works

Among his most important works on porcelain features a 1768/1769 arisen, provided with landscape motifs dinner service for Duke Charles I of Brunswick.

The Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum has 216 drawings Weitschs.

Painting (selection)

• The Bode Valley with the Roßtrappe, 1769 (Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum )

Further works are in the possession of the Municipal Museum of Braunschweig.