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Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680–1729) was a German painter.
Life
Bretschneider was born at
Aussig, in
Bohemia
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. His parents were Wentzel and Ludmilla Bretschneider.
His teacher is not assuredly known, but it is believed that he learned from
Johann Rudolf Byss
Johann Rudolf Byss (1660–1738) was a Swiss painter.
He was born in Solothurn and first learned painting from his father Johann Joseph Byss, and later from Johann Heinrich Roos, whose sons he would have known well.[Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...]
.
On 18 July 1700, he was admitted to the painters' guild in Old Town and got Citizenship on 20 September 1700. He stayed in Prague until 1703. In the years 1717–1721, he can be detected in Vienna, where he painted genre pictures and flowers, then he probably came to Bavaria.
Pictures of him are displayed in the
Pinakothek
A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or anc ...
in
Munich
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(p.e. ''Musical Entertainment'') and in the
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
The Germanisches National Museum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, it houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day. The Germanisches National ...
in
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
(p.e. ''Picture Gallery'').
References
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External links
Picture DiscussionCzech artist Encyclopedia
1680 births
1729 deaths
18th-century German painters
18th-century German male artists
German male painters
Artists from Ústà nad Labem
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