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Johann Heinrich Tischbein came from simple circumstances. His natural, extremely great talent for drawing emerged early on - although the family had no money for paper or chalk. Thus the young Johann Heinrich painted on the kitchen table, which was inevitably wiped clean again and again. Later he was apprenticed to a master wallpaper painter - and soon he turned out to be a lucky man, because by chance, Count von Stadion, the Grand Master of the Elector of Mainz, recognized Tischbein's oversized talent. The Count now acted as a patron and made it possible for the young Tischbein to take lessons with well-known artists of the time. In 1743 Johann Heinrich Tischbein went to Paris for five years.
In the metropolis on the Seine, Tischbein took lessons with France's renowned history painters Jean Restout and Carle Vanloo as well as with the renowned portrait painter Nicolas de Langilliere. Art studies later led him to Italy, where he met the fresco painter Giovanni B. Tiepolo and attended the drawing school of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The French and Italian influences were to become clearer little by little in Tischbein's artistic work: This attitude, which was so popular, aroused great interest in contemporary aristocratic circles.
It was Wilhelm VIII of Kassel, the Landgrave of Hesse who was particularly fond of art, who appointed Tischbein as court painter. During this time Tischbein created important works in the segment of portrait and history painting and reached the peak of his artistic fame. In 1762 Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder was appointed director of the "Collegium Carolinum" art academy by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse-Kassel, which still exists today. Tischbein's reputation was so great that he was subsequently able to train all the talented family members in painting. As a result, the Tischbein family became a family of painters across the generations. Tischbein's nephews also became famous: Frankfurt's Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751 to 1829) through his Goethe painting and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein through portraits of the rich citizens of Saxony.
Today art connoisseurs say: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder and his family is to painting what the family around Johann Sebastian Bach is to music. In a Tischbein biography, reference is made not only to the important artistic work but also to the master's eye complaint. In his later years Tischbein suffered from progressive blindness at close range. At this stage Tischbein selectively scanned the objects in order to reassemble the whole with the help of his trained powers of imagination. Accordingly, the artistic achievements in his later paintings were achieved by the great power of genius. Against this background, Tischbein's artistic achievement in his last great painting, "Christ on the Mount of Olives", is particularly appreciated: He painted it almost blind and completed the painting a few months before his death in August 1789.
Johann Heinrich Tischbein came from simple circumstances. His natural, extremely great talent for drawing emerged early on - although the family had no money for paper or chalk. Thus the young Johann Heinrich painted on the kitchen table, which was inevitably wiped clean again and again. Later he was apprenticed to a master wallpaper painter - and soon he turned out to be a lucky man, because by chance, Count von Stadion, the Grand Master of the Elector of Mainz, recognized Tischbein's oversized talent. The Count now acted as a patron and made it possible for the young Tischbein to take lessons with well-known artists of the time. In 1743 Johann Heinrich Tischbein went to Paris for five years.
In the metropolis on the Seine, Tischbein took lessons with France's renowned history painters Jean Restout and Carle Vanloo as well as with the renowned portrait painter Nicolas de Langilliere. Art studies later led him to Italy, where he met the fresco painter Giovanni B. Tiepolo and attended the drawing school of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The French and Italian influences were to become clearer little by little in Tischbein's artistic work: This attitude, which was so popular, aroused great interest in contemporary aristocratic circles.
It was Wilhelm VIII of Kassel, the Landgrave of Hesse who was particularly fond of art, who appointed Tischbein as court painter. During this time Tischbein created important works in the segment of portrait and history painting and reached the peak of his artistic fame. In 1762 Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder was appointed director of the "Collegium Carolinum" art academy by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse-Kassel, which still exists today. Tischbein's reputation was so great that he was subsequently able to train all the talented family members in painting. As a result, the Tischbein family became a family of painters across the generations. Tischbein's nephews also became famous: Frankfurt's Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751 to 1829) through his Goethe painting and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein through portraits of the rich citizens of Saxony.
Today art connoisseurs say: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder and his family is to painting what the family around Johann Sebastian Bach is to music. In a Tischbein biography, reference is made not only to the important artistic work but also to the master's eye complaint. In his later years Tischbein suffered from progressive blindness at close range. At this stage Tischbein selectively scanned the objects in order to reassemble the whole with the help of his trained powers of imagination. Accordingly, the artistic achievements in his later paintings were achieved by the great power of genius. Against this background, Tischbein's artistic achievement in his last great painting, "Christ on the Mount of Olives", is particularly appreciated: He painted it almost blind and completed the painting a few months before his death in August 1789.
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.jpg "Portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781, c. 1755 by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "The Muse Terpsichore by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Jupiter Disguised as Diana Seducing Callisto by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Dido on the Pyre by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Narcissus by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Frederick II, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Timmermann Family, 1758 by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_Peinture_de_Johann_Hei_-_(MeisterDrucke-1320846).jpg "River God and a Nymph by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Gamblers in the Foyer by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Anthony, Mortally Wounded, with Cleopatra by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Juliane, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting the Enchantments of Armida")
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.jpg "Portrait of Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Landgravess Philippine Hunting Heron by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Anthony Telling Cleopatra of his Victory over the Cavalry of Octavian (detail) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "The Dedication of the Memorial to Frederick II at Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "The Actress Mademoiselle Evrard by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_Peinture_de_Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324878).jpg "Venus and Adonis by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Carlo and Ubaldo Snatch Rinaldo from the Arms of Armida by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Girl with a Rose by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-592270).jpg "Telemachus and Mentor on Cyprus by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Allegory Representing the Foundation of the Kassel Academy of Art by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1480926).jpg "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German Dramatist and Philosopher by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-592156).jpg "Aristotle by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Portrait of Erasmus, Bishop of the Monastery of Aulis on Crete by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1127486).jpg "Nestor Shows Telemachus the Ship by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Wilhelmine Caroline Amalie Tischbein by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Allegory Representing the Prosperous Rule of the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Dr. Schmidt-Capelle by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Landgrave Carl as a Child by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "The Artist")
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.jpg "Masked Personalities of the Kassel Court by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Artist")
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.jpg "Carlo and Ubaldo by the Water Nymphs by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "House of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Carlo and Ubaldo Visit the Wizard in their Search for the Lost Rinaldo by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Self Portrait in Old Age by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Allegory Representing the Levelling of the Old Fortifications by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573362).jpg "The Muse Melpomene (the nine muses, 1771) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573365).jpg "The Nine Muses - Thalia (Comedy) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573360).jpg "The Nine Muses - Erato (Lyric Poetry) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maria Anna Treu by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573363).jpg "The Muse Melpomene (the nine muses, 1771) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573361).jpg "The Muse Euterpe (the nine muses, 1782) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Family Timmermann by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573366).jpg "The Nine Muses - Urania (Astronomy) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1553927).jpg "Prince Henry of Prussia (1726-1802) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Jupiter in the Guise of Diana Seducing Callisto by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573359).jpg "The Nine Muses - Calliope (Epic Poetry) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1573364).jpg "The Muse Terpsichore (the nine muses, 1782) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Aeneas before Dido by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Acis and Galatea by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "A Muse by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Philippine Amalie Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Acis and Galatea by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
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.jpg "Self Portrait in Middle Age by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
.jpg "The Abduction of Briseis from the Tent of Achilles by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
.jpg "The Muse Urania by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")
.jpg "The Muse Euterpe by Johann Heinrich Tischbein")