Johann Valentin Tischbein

Johann Valentin Tischbein ( born December 11, 1715 in Kloster Haina, † April 24, 1768 in Hildburghausen ) was a German painter from the artist family table leg.

Life

Johann Valentin Tischbein was the son of a master baker Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1682-1764) was born as one of eight siblings. One of his older brothers was, inter alia, Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder.

His apprenticeship (1729-1736) he spent at the court painter Johann Christian Fiedler in Darmstadt and Johann Georg von Freese in Kassel.

The subsequent life as an artist Tischbein had many stations. The whereabouts from 1736 to 1739 is unclear There is speculation that he was in Frankfurt am Main. From 1741, he was then employed as court painter to the Count of Solms- Laubach. From 1744 to 1747 or 1750 he was court painter to the Prince of Hohenlohe- Kirchberg in Kirchberg an der Jagst. There he married his first wife Margaret Dieffenbach. His next stop was the Dutch Maastricht, where he produced a series of nine portraits of the military governors of Maastricht (now in Fasanerie in Fulda). In Maastricht in 1750, his son Johann Friedrich August was born, who became known as Leipziger Tischbein later. In the same year he moved to The Hague.

It was not until 1764 he returned to Germany. He was for a short time landgräflicher - Hessian scene painter in Kassel. He then worked as court painter to Duke Ernst Friedrich II of Saxe -Hildburghausen, but continued working for Landgrave's Theatre in Kassel. In 1765 he married his second wife, Elisabeth Faure.

He died in 1768 in Hildburghausen.

Works

Preserved are mainly portraits and theatrical scenery. They are, among others preserved from Angermuseum Erfurt, of the Hessian House Foundation ( Fasanerie near Fulda ), the Laubach Castle, the Hohenlohe lock on the Jagst ( spent mostly to Schloss New stone), the Friedrich Stein ( Bad Wildungen ) Castle, the Neue Galerie Kassel and the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.