Discover engraver (printmaker), painter, draftsperson Johann Oswald Harms

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: Harmes, Johann Oswald
Horms, Johann Oswald

Qualifications: engraver (printmaker), painter, draftsperson, scenic painter
painted scenes for the opera in Wolfenbüttel

Nationality/school: German

Born: Hamburg (city) 1643-04/1643-04-30
baptized 30 April 1643

Deceased: Braunschweig 1708

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Between 1689 and 1697, Harms created a large number of wall and ceiling paintings in Castle and the Castle church of Salzdahlum together with Joachim Luhn and Tobias Querfurt I

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6 hits in RKDimages as artist
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Hamburg (stad)
Rome 1665
from 1665 on several years in Italy, in Rome (pupil of Salvator Rosa) and Venice
Venetië 1669
Neurenberg 1673
On his way back from Italy, he stopped in Nuremberg to study with Johann Franciscus (Franz) Ermels and Willem van Bemmel.
Zeitz 1675
court painter
Salzdahlum
Gerson 1942/1983, p. 256
Dresden 1675 - 1677
designed ceilings for the elector's castle in Dresden
Wolfenbüttel 1686
court painter for Duke Anton-Ulrich. As' Maschinenmeister, Cammerdiener und Maler', he was responsible for all the theatre and public festivities (opera, feasts etc.)
Hamburg (stad) 1696 - 1701
Gerson 1942/1983, p. 256
Kassel (Hessen) 1698
worked here in the same time as in Hamburg

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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.: Bemmel, Willem van
Ellerbrock, Hinrich
Ermels, Johann Franz
pupil of the Hamburg painter Heinrich Ellerbrock (Tintelnot 1941, p. 245)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Ermels, Johann Franz

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.: architecture (genre), landscape (genre)

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Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 16 (1923), p. 45
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 221, 256
Richter 1963 , passim
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 5, p. 407
Salerno 1977-1980 , vol. 2, p. 882-883
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 129
Saur 1992- , vol. 49 (2010), p. 366
Sitt/Gassner 2010 , p. 126-127

H. Tintelnot, 'Johann Oswald Harms, ein norddeutscher Maler des Barock', Zeitschrift des deutschen Vereins für Kunstwisschaft 8 (1941), p. 245-260
F. Thöne, 'Der Wolfenbütteler Barockbaumeister Johann Balthasar Lauterbach', Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 3/4 (1950), p. 197
J.W. Niemeijer, 'Johann Oswald Harms als etser van 'Alcune inventione de Ruini', innovator of epigoon', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 22 (1974), p. 105-110
B. Steinborn, 'Eine "Ruinelandschaft"von Johann Oswald Harms', 'Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 15 (1976), p. 161-166

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