Christian Berentz was a German Baroque painter.

Biography

Berentz was born in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany. According to the RKD pupil he was the pupil of Hermann Kamphusen from 1667-1673 and then from 1673-1677 a pupil of Georg Hainz

Georg Hainz

Georg Hainz , was a German Baroque painter.-Biography:According to Houbraken who called him Hins, he was the teacher of Ernst Stuven and took him into his home when he noticed how much talent the young boy had....

. He travelled through the Netherlands in the years 1677-1679 and in 1679 he travelled to Venice and from there to Rome where he stayed until 1722. Like Franz Werner von Tamm

Franz Werner von Tamm

Franz Werner von Tamm , was a German Baroque painter who travelled to Italy.-Biography:According to Houbraken, who called him Joano Vernero Tam in a poem about the members of the Bentvueghels, he joined the Bent with the name "Dapper" and was a good flower painter.According to the RKD his nickname...

 (called Dapper), he is registered as the teacher of Pietro Navarra. Like Tamm, Berentz is also registered as working in the Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

 studio. He is known for still lifes in the manner of Pieter Claesz

Pieter Claesz

Pieter Claesz was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.-Biography:He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1621, where his son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born...

, Maximilian Pfeiler, Willem Kalf

Willem Kalf

- Life and work :Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619. He was previously thought to have been born in 1622, but H. E. van Gelder’s important archival research has established the painter’s correct place and date of birth. Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where...

, Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten

Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten

Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes and genre scenes.-Biography:He was a student of Frans Hals and married his daughter Adriaentje in 1654...

, and Francesco Fieravino.

In Rome in the 1700s, he lived in the house of Marchese Pallavicini

Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi

The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi is a palace in Rome, Italy. It was built by the Borghese family on the Quirinal Hill; its footprint occupies the site where the ruins of the baths of Constantine stood, whose remains still are part of the basement of the main building, the Casino dell'Aurora...

. Berentz painted primarily still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

s, and was important, because he introduced North European themes. He died in Rome in 1722.