Johannes Gottlieb Glauber
Johannes Gottlieb Glauber(1656,Utrecht (city)– 1703,Wroclaw), was aDutch Golden Agepainter.
Biography[edit]
According toHoubrakenhe was the son of the Amsterdam chemistJohann Rudolph Glauber(1604–1670), after whose death he left home at 15 to travel with his brotherJohannes Glauberand the twobrothers Van Dorenby boat to Paris in 1671, where they stayed together for a year.[1]When his brother Johannes departed for Lyon, young Jan Gotlieb became a pupil of the Haarlem painterJacob Knijffand stayed painting for him until Knijff left Paris on a commission, whereupon Jan Gotlieb joined his brother in Lyon.[1]Together they then travelled to Italy with two French painters. After 6 months in Rome he joined theBentvueghelswith the nicknameMirtillus.[1]
After 2 years in Rome the brothers set off for Padua with the Flemish painterRobbert Duval (1639-1732),where they stayed a year. After that they travelled to Venice, where they stayed two years, attending the funeral of their friendKarel Dujardin.They finally left Italy in 1679 and went north toHamburg,where they lived until 1684 when Jan Gotlieb went into the service of a German prince.[1]From there he traveled to Vienna and from there to Wroclaw, where he died in 1703.[1]
According to the RKD Jan Gotlieb Glauber was born in Utrecht as the younger brother of the painterDiana Glauber,accompanied his brother on all his travels, but left Hamburg in 1685 for Vienna.[2]
References[edit]
- ^abcde(in Dutch)Jan Gotlief Glauber BiographyinDe groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen(1718) byArnold Houbraken,courtesy of theDigital library for Dutch literature
- ^Johannes Gottlieb Glauberin theRKD
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