Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688) - Germany and Italy

Joachim von Sandrart
The Good Samaritan
1632
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Joachim von Sandrart
Allegory of Night
ca. 1654-56
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Joachim von Sandrart
Odysseus and Nausicaa
ca. 1639
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Joachim von Sandrart
Minerva and Saturn protecting Art and Science from Envy and Falsehood
1644
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

"Joachim von Sandrart was born in 1606 in Frankfurt am Main where he trained under two minor local painters, Georg Keller and later Sebastian Stosskopf.  From 1623 to 1625 he studied in Utrecht with Gerrit van Honthorst with whom he briefly sojourned to England, where he met Orazio Gentileschi.  In 1628 he traveled by way of Frankfurt to Italy.  He was in Venice until 1629 and then made his way, with a brief visit to Bologna, to Rome, where he settled for six years.  Through a very useful close acquaintanceship with the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, Sandrart came into contact with the circle of the Caravaggisti.  In 1630-31 he traveled "in good company" to Naples, Sicily and Malta, the latter being of particular interest to him because of the works painted there by Caravaggio.  From 1635 onwards Sandrart was again active in Germany and briefly also in Utrecht, Amsterdam and other Netherlandish cities.  From 1645 to 1670 he lived in very comfortable circumstances on his estate at Stockau near Ingolstadt where he occupied himself with artistic, literary and agricultural projects.  . . .  Sandrart, the "German Apelles," is, along with Adam Elsheimer and Karl Loth, the most notable representative of German art during its darkest period.  He was, however, little more than a skillful eclectic and a facile practitioner; he is far more interesting for his worldly and multifaceted personality than for his originality or accomplishments as an artist."

– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)

Joachim von Sandrart
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria, with St Leopold and St William
1647
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Joachim von Sandrart
Holy Family in a Landscape
before 1688
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes

Joachim von Sandrart
Officers and other Members of the Militia of District XIX in Amsterdam
ca. 1638-40
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Joachim von Sandrart
Young Woman with Maid at a Fish Market, with Shells and a Narwhal
1654-55
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Joachim von Sandrart
Allegories of the Months - November
1643
oil on canvas
Schleissheim State Gallery, Munich

Joachim von Sandrart
Allegories of the Months - February
ca. 1642
oil on canvas
Schleissheim State Gallery, Munich

Joachim von Sandrart
Allegories of the Months - September
ca. 1644
drawing (made after the painting as model for a print)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Joachim von Sandrart
The Holy Kinship (Madonna and Child and St John the Baptist)
with Prophets and Symbols of the Four Evangelists
before 1688
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Joachim von Sandrart
Pygmalion
1662
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

Joachim von Sandrart
Cupid pissing into Chamber Pot held by an Old Woman
1640
etching
British Museum