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Johann Conrad Seekatz BIOGRAPHY
1719 - 1768. Known for: Rococo painting.
Johann Conrad Seekatz came from a German family of artists who were active in the Darmstadt/Worms area for over 170 years. He is certainly the most famous member of this family. His further training... Read full biography
Johann Conrad Seekatz came from a German family of artists who were active in the Darmstadt/Worms area for over 170 years. He is certainly the most famous member of this family. His further training with the Mannheim court painter Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (from 1748) was of great importance... Read full biography
Johann Conrad Seekatz came from a German family of artists who were active in the Darmstadt/Worms area for over 170 years. He is certainly the most famous member of this family. His further training with the Mannheim court painter Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (from 1748) was of great importance for his artistic work. In Mannheim he also got to know the famous electoral painting collection there. In 1753 he took up a position with the reigning Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. In... Read full biography
Johann Conrad Seekatz came from a German family of artists who were active in the Darmstadt/Worms area for over 170 years. He is certainly the most famous member of this family. His further training with the Mannheim court painter Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (from 1748) was of great importance for his artistic work. In Mannheim he also got to know the famous electoral painting collection there. In 1753 he took up a position with the reigning Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. In addition, Seekatz also looked to Frankfurt am Main, where his mostly small-format genre pieces were extremely popular with private collectors. Johann Caspar Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's father, acquired at least 17 works by Seekatz, and in 1762 the... Read full biography
Johann Conrad Seekatz came from a German family of artists who were active in the Darmstadt/Worms area for over 170 years. He is certainly the most famous member of this family. His further training with the Mannheim court painter Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (from 1748) was of great importance for his artistic work. In Mannheim he also got to know the famous electoral painting collection there. In 1753 he took up a position with the reigning Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. In addition, Seekatz also looked to Frankfurt am Main, where his mostly small-format genre pieces were extremely popular with private collectors. Johann Caspar Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's father, acquired at least 17 works by Seekatz, and in 1762 the artist portrayed Goethe and his family in pastoral costume in front of an Arcadian landscape. From 1765, a series of 17 overdo... Read full biography
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Johann Conrad Seekatz came from a German family of artists who were active in the Darmstadt/Worms area for over 170 years. He is certainly the most famous member of this family.
His further training with the Mannheim court painter Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (from 1748) was of great importance for his artistic work. In Mannheim he also got to know the famous electoral painting collection there.
In 1753 he took up a position with the reigning Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. In addition, Seekatz also looked to Frankfurt am Main, where his mostly small-format genre pieces were extremely popular with private collectors. Johann Caspar Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's father, acquired at least 17 works by Seekatz, ...But wait, there's more...
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