Johann König

Johann König, Hans King ( born October 21, 1586 Nuremberg, † March 4, 1642 ) was a German painter, miniaturist and draftsman. He is known today mainly because of its very fine painted copper panels.

Life

John King was born in Nuremberg in 1586, the son of a goldsmith Arnold King. Let his knowledge of the works of John Rottenhammer the Elder suspect that he could have spent his formative years in Augsburg (possibly at Rottenhammer ).

What is certain is proving that he one years staying in Venice and from September 1610-1614 in Rome. Here he has probably hit the deceased in December 1610 Adam Elsheimer, whose early Roman style represented a direct excitation to King 's work. Early on, can be found in works king a direct precipitation in Elsheimer's landscape art.

Together with the works of Paul Bril they exerted a strong influence on the young painter. He probably came to Rome with the early works of Carlo Saraceni in touch.

In 1614, he returned and married in Augsburg and got here the painter law. In 1622 he was Vorgeher the painters' guild, a year later, became a member of the Great Council. After 1620 he participated together with ornament created by Elias Holl Augsburg City Hall with Matthew Gundelach and Johann Matthias Kager.

After the Edict of Restitution followed for religious reasons by 1631 the return to Nuremberg, where he died in March 1642 after further activity.

Work

King is best known as a painter of small-format images on copper and full color miniatures and also Kunstkammer pieces of marble and agate.

Philipp Hainhofer esteemed him and gave him repeatedly studbook leaves, among other things Orders. With the equipment of the Augsburg City Hall, the three monumental images of southwestern Prince room and the court room were commissioned from him. Here finished King for the courtroom the works The Last Judgment and The story of Ananias and Saphera.

Less well known is King for a series of large-format canvases with personifications of virtues and Roman rulers, which he painted for the Town Hall in Augsburg and are now on display, along with five drawings in the Municipal Art Collections, in Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg. Other works of the king are the Louvre in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

This is followed by some individual pieces medium to larger format on canvas, as the painting of St. Peter, in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig and the painting of the stoning of St. Stephen. In December, a 61.5 × 46 cm large painting was auctioned on a copper plate resurrection of Christ in Cologne at the auction house Lempertz.