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Christian Berentz or Bernetz (1658–1722) was a German Baroque painter.
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Christian Berentz
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Christian Berentz or Bernetz (1658–1722) was a German Baroque painter.
Biography
Berentz was born inHamburg
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, Germany. According to the RKD pupil he was the pupil of Hermann Kamphusen from 1667 to 1673 and then from 1673 to 1677 a pupil of Georg Hainz.Christian Berentzin the
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The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He travelled through the Netherlands in the years 1677-1679 and in 1679 he travelled to Venice and from there to Rome where he stayed until 1722. Like Franz Werner von Tamm (called Dapper), he is registered as the teacher of Pietro Navarra. Like Tamm, Berentz is also registered as working in the Carlo Maratta
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studio. He is known for still lifes in the manner of Pieter Claesz
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Biography
He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, wher ...
, Maximilian Pfeiler, Willem Kalf
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, Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, and Francesco Noletti.
In Rome in the 1700s, he lived in the house of ''Marchese'' Pallavicini
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The Pallavicini of Genoa
The first recorded member o ...
. Berentz painted primarily still lifes, and was important, because he introduced North European themes. He died in Rome in 1722.
References
Christian Berentz
on Artnet Simona Sperindei, Niccolò Maria Pallavicini, mecenate, collezionista e protettore di Christian Berentz, in "Annali della Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon", XII, 2012, pp. 537–542. 1658 births 1722 deaths 17th-century German painters German male painters 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German Baroque painters Artists from Hamburg Flower artists Pupils of Carlo Maratta {{Germany-painter-stub