Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann

Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (* 1709 in Speyer, † December 21, 1760 in Mannheim, Germany ) was a German landscape and history painter and engraver on Kurpfälzer court in Mannheim.

Life and work

Brinckmann was a student of Johann Georg Dathan (1703 -ca. 1748) in Speyer. 1733 he was appointed court painter under Elector Karl Philipp in Mannheim. In 1757 he was made director of the painting cabinet and was in 1757 a member of the Privy Council.

On a trip through Switzerland in 1745, he created one of the first German painter pictures of the Swiss mountains. As court painter, he was involved among other things, the design of the library cabinet of the Electress Elisabeth Augusta in Mannheim Palace. He created in the Mannheim Jesuit Church of the continent frescoes and some altarpieces.

Brinckmann was in his time an esteemed artist. As a landscape painter, he was based on the works of Salvator Rosa. Even Rembrandt van Rijn was to him a role model. He signed his works with his initials PB and PHB or with a monogram that consists of the folded letters PH and B.. Goethe mentioned him in " Poetry and Truth " as one of the painters who had impressed him in his youth.