Johann Michael Bretschneider

Philosophers in study, 1700; National Museum of Wrocław
Scholar in study, 1700; National Museum of Wrocław
Picture Gallery, 1702, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680-1729) was a German painter.

Life

Bretschneider was born at Aussig, in Bohemia. His parents were Wentzel and Ludmilla Bretschneider. His teacher is not assuredly known, but it is believed that he learned from Johann Rudolf Byss (1660–1738) in Prague. 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 in Munich (p.e. Musical Entertainment) and in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (p.e. Picture Gallery). [1]

References

  1. ↑ Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "BRETSCHNEIDER, Johann Michael" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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