Wenzel Lorenz Reiner
Wenzel Lorenz Reiner (Czech: Václav Vavrinec Reiner ) ( born August 8, 1689 Prague, † October 9, 1743 ) was an important painter and fresco painter of the Baroque in Bohemia.
Life
Wenzel Lorenz Reiner was baptized on August 8, 1689 in the Church of St. Havel in Prague. He came from an artistic family. His grandfather Martin Reiner was a prominent builder. He received his first training from his father Josef Reiner, who worked as a sculptor in Prague. Subsequently, he was student of the painter Johann Peter Brandl and Michael Wenzel Halbax ( Halwachs ) and after 1705 by Anton Ferdinand Schweiger. At a young age he set up a painting workshop and became a member of the Prague painter Brotherhood. His work was also influenced by the operating in Silesia painter Michael Willmann. Among his earliest frescoes are the apostles martyrdom, which he created in 1714 for the monastery church in Osek. His main work, the Last Judgment in the Prague Kreuzherrenkirche is called from the years 1722 to 1723.
Reiner was one of the most important artists of the Bohemian Baroque. Side panel and altarpieces he created monumental battles and landscapes and also worked as a fresco painter, which served him, the works of Johann Christoph Lischka as a model. The ceiling paintings were often in collaboration with Franz Maximilian Kanka and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. In addition to several orders in Silesia and Austria and was mainly active in Bohemia.
After 1730 he came under the influence of Cosmas Damian Asam, whom he met in the facilities of St. Hedwig's Church in the city and by the choice he anticipated elements of the future Rococo style.
Family
On November 21, 1725 married Wenzel Lorenz Reiner citizens daughter Anna Veronika Duke of Prague. The wedding ceremony took place in the Kreuzherrenkirche by the then General Grand Master Matthew Böhmb. The marriage produced five children. His final resting place he found in the aisle of St. Giles 's Church in the Old Town of Prague.
Works
In Prague
- All Saints Chapel in the Old Royal Palace: Main altarpiece
- Kreuzherrenkirche: frescoes and paintings dome
- Church Lady of the Snows ( Kostel Panny Marie Sněžné ): main altar painting " Annunciation "
- Sanctuary of Loreto at Hradcany: Ceiling fresco in the Nativity Church
- St. Aegidius ( Kostel svatého Jilji ): ceiling fresco, and other painting
- St. George's Church ( Basilica svatého Jiři ): Main altar paintings and dome fresco
- St. Henry's Church ( Kostel svatého Jindřicha ): two altarpieces
- St. Jacob's Church ( Kostel svatého Jakuba ): Painting
- St. Catherine's Church in the former convent of the Augustin Interior ( Kostel svaté Kateřiny ): almost all the murals
- St. Thomas Church ( Kostel svatého Tomáše ): ceiling fresco
- White Mountain ( Bila Hora ) with ceiling frescoes in the Marian Sanctuary
- Czernin Palace: painting Fall of the giants in the stairwell
- Palais Vrtbovská and Vrtbov Garden ( Vrtbovský palac ze zahradou ): frescoes in the Sala terrene
In other places
- Gutwasser: Frescoes in the Sanctuary
- Dux: Ceiling painting of the great hall in the castle ( together with Matthias Bernard Braun and Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff )
- Jemniste: frescoes in the chapel of the castle of the noble family of Trautmansdorff
- King's Hall: Frescoes in the Prelature of the former convent
- Lissa on the Elbe: frescoes in the castle of the noble family of Spork
- Osek Monastery frescoes and altar paintings of St. Bernard in the Monastery Church of the Assumption
- Raudnitz: altarpiece in the chapel of St. William
- Dolni Ročov ( Rotschau ), District Laun: Paintings for the Augustinian monastery
- Teplitz: Paintings in the Deanery Church of St. John the Baptist
In Silesia
- Wahlstatt: side altars in the church of the Holy Cross and St. Hedwig: Cross of Sorrow
- Apotheosis of St Benedict
- St. Adalbert on the Green Mountain accomplishes the rain miracle
- Martyrdom of St. Margaret
In Austria
- Gaming Charterhouse: painting of the library