Joachim von Sandrart
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Joachim von Sandrart (12 May 1606 - 14 October 1688) was a German art-historian and painter.
[edit] Biography
Sandrart was born in Frankfurt, but the family originated from Mons. After studying in Germany, he travelled to Utrecht. In 1625 he became a pupil of Gerrit van Honthorst, in 1627 visited by Rubens. When Honthorst was invited to England, Sandrart was his companion. After 1629 Sandrart journeyed to Italy, where he became famous as a portrait-painter. In 1637 he subsequently revisited Holland.
In Amsterdam he worked as a painter, including making a large commemorative painting for the state visit by Maria of Medici, which hangs in the Rijksmuseum. This was a commission by the Bicker Company, and shows the members posing around a bust of Maria of Medici, with a poem by Joost van den Vondel hanging below it. The state visit was a big deal for Amsterdam, as it meant the first formal recognition of the Dutch Republic of the seven provinces by France. However, Maria herself was fleeing Richelieu at the time and never returned to France.
In 1645 Sandrart returned to Germany and settled in Nuremberg, where he lived out the remainder of his life. His 1649 painting Peace-Banquet commemorating the Peace of Münster, now hangs in Nuremberg's town hall.
[edit] Deutsche Akademie
He is best known as an author of books on art, some of them in Latin, and especially for his historical work, the Deutsche Akademie[1] of which there is a more recent edition by Sponsel (1896). This work is a educational compilation of short biographies of artists, that was inspired by Karel van Mander's similar Schilder-boeck. Both Sandrart and van Mander based their Italian sections on the work of Giorgio Vasari.
He published the first biography of the German artist Matthias Grünewald, and incorrectly bestowed on the artist the name Grünewald by which he is now popularly known.
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[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Teutsche Academie der Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Joachim von Sandrart, Nürnberg 1675, 1679, 1680
