Discover painter, court painter Johann Spilberg (II)

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: Spielberg, Johann (II)
Spilberg, Johannes (II)

Qualifications: painter, court painter
According to Houbraken he learned Latin and other languages before he became a painter.

Nationality/school: German, North Netherlandish

Born: Düsseldorf 1619-04-30
Houbraken 1721

Deceased: Düsseldorf 1690-08-10
Houbraken 1721

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: nephew of Gabriel Spilberg, son of Johann Spilberg I. Notice of marriage 3 July 1649, 29 years old, living at the Oudezijds Kerkhof in Amsterdam, to Marrite Gerrits (De Vries 1886). Houbraken called his wife Maria Fis and states that they married on 20 July 1649. The couple had two sons and three daughters, among them Adriana Spilberg.

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Düsseldorf
Amsterdam (stad) 1638 - 1648
went to Antwerp to visit Rubens with a letter of recommendation of Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm. When he heard that Rubens had passed away, Spilberg went to Amsterdam instead, where he became a pupil of Govert Flinck.
Düsseldorf 1648
probably visited Dusseldorf in 1648 (1648 dated portraits of Wolfgang Wilhelm von der Pfalz-Neuburg and members of his family)
Keulen 1648
was sent by Wolfgang Wilhelm von der Pfalz-Neuburg with the field marshal to Cologne to paint a portrait of the Gentlewoman von Fürstenberg (Houbraken 1721, p. 44)
Amsterdam (stad) 1649 - 1650
married in Amsterdam to Maria Gerrits, 3 July 1649; became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1650
Düsseldorf 1651 - 1654
c. 1651-1653
Amsterdam (stad) 1654 - 1661
c. 1654-1661
Düsseldorf 1661 - 1690
c. 1661-1690. He

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Flinck, Govert
Spilberg, Johann (I)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Spilberg, Adriana

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 42-45 (as: Johannes Spilberg)
Parthey 1863-1864 , vol. 2 (1864), p. 570-571 (as: Spielberg, Johann)
Hofstede de Groot 1893 (Quellenstudien) , esp. p. 167
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2, p. 646
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 31 (1937), p. 378
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 245-246
Sumowski 1983-1994 , vol. 2, p. 1005, p. 1009-1017, ill.; vol. 5, no. 2086a as Govert Flinck, no. 2155, ill.; vol. 6, p. 3604, 3641, no. 2440-2442, ill.
Huys Janssen/Sumowski 1992 , p. 287
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 33, p. 279 (Lemma Wolfgang William [Wolfgang Wilhelm], Count Palatine of Neuberg)
Baljöhr 2003 , p. 265, 283
Saur 1992- , vol. 105 (2019), p. 278
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (VI), Oud-Holland 4 (1886), p. 135-144; p. 138
F. Schaarschmidt, 'Fürstliche Bildnisse in der Gemäldesammlung der Kgl. Kunstakademie zu Düsseldorf', Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins. Jahrbuch des Düsseldorfer Geschichts-Vereins 11 (1897), p. 28-63, passim
F. Schaarschmidt, 'Ein Bildnis des Kurfürsten Johann Wilhelm in der Königl. Kunstakademie', Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins. Zeitschrift des Düsseldorfer Geschichtsvereins 7 (1902), p. 179-180
Th. Frimmel, 'Gemälde im Wiener Privatbesitz', Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde 5 (1920), p. 35-40, esp. p. 37, 38
R.A. Peltzer, 'Bilder Rheinischer Barockmalerei in Bayern', Wallraf Richartz Jahrbuch 1 (1930), 246-260, esp. p. 252-256, ill.
P. Bröker, unpublished paper on Johannes Spilberg, Utrecht University, 1982

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