c.1600/1615-after 1678, German painter. The son of a bookkeeper at the corn exchange, he was known because of a disability as 'the Ovelg?nne mute'. An aristocratic sponsor, probably Graf Anton G?nther (1603-67) of Oldenburg, sent him to train in the Netherlands: stylistic considerations would suggest that this was in the 1630s. The Evening Scene (1637; ex-art market, Berlin; G?ttsche, no. 8) shows him adapting the style of Caravaggio as practised in Utrecht to the kind of social gathering depicted by Dirck Hals or Anthonie Palamedesz. He uses an artificial light source to exaggerate the modelling of the figures and the space. This characteristic of his art also shows in the Evening Banquet of 1640  Related Paintings of Wolfgang Heimbach :. | La Maddalena | Portrait of Baudouin of Burgundy sg | Lunette with Saint John the Evangelist | The Temptation | Still Life with Oysters |
Related Artists:
ZOFFANY Johann
German/English painter (b. 1733, Frankfurt, d. 1810, Strand-on-the-Green)
frances reynolds
1729-1807
Johann Heinrich Hintze
painted Berlin, Altes Museum von der Schlossfreiheit aus in 1832