Discover painter, court painter Christoph Bernard Francke

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: Franck, Bernhard Christoph
Frank, Bernhard Christoph
Francken, Bernhard Christoph
Francke, Bernhard

Qualifications: painter, court painter

Nationality/school: German

Born: Hannover 1660/1670
c. 1660/70, probably in Hannover

Deceased: Braunschweig 1729-01/1729-01-28
buried 29 January 1729

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Hannover
Braunschweig 1693 - 1729
in 1693 in Braunschwig as a luitenant; certainly located in this town from 1699 on; court painter of August Wilhelm von Braunschweig

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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.: portrait, princely portrait

Literature

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 12 (1906), p. 338-339 (as: Brancke, Bernhard (Christoph Bernhard), in der Literatur auch Franck, Frank, Francken)
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 4, p. 491 (as: FRANCKE ou Franck, ou Frank, ou Francken ou Franken (Bernhard Christoph))
Witt Checklist 1978 , P. 102 (as: FRANCKE, Christoph Bernard)
Jacoby/Michels 1989 , p. 121-126
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 5, p. 655 (as: FRANCKE ou Franck, ou Frank, ou Francken ou Franken (Bernhard Christoph))
Haak 2001 , p. 75-76, 218-221
Saur 1992- , vol. 43 (2004), p. 463 (as: Francke, Christoph Bernard)

P.J. Meier, 'Bernhard Christoph Francken. Ein braunschweigischer Bildnismaler im 1. Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts', Jahrbuch des Geschichtsvereins für das Herzogtum Braunschweig 14 (1915-1916), p. 100-112 (online)
H. Thiersch, 'Leibnizens Bildnisse in Göttingen, Braunschweig und Wolfenbüttel', Mitteilungen des Universitätsbundes Göttingen 2 (1920-1921), no. 2, p. 1-68, esp. p. 29, ill.
D. Sutton, 'Princes as Patrons', Apollo 1986, p. 146-149, esp. p. 149, ill.

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