Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, called the Kasseler, (October 3, 1722 in Haina

Haina

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 – August 22, 1789 in Kassel

Kassel

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), was one of the most respected European painters in the 18th century and an important member of the Tischbein

Tischbein (family)

The Tischbeins were a family of German painters, most notably:*Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, a.k.a. Kasseler Tischbein *Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, a.k.a. Leipziger Tischbein...

 dynasty of German

Germany

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 painters, which spanned four generations.

His work consisted primarily of portrait

Portrait

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s of the nobility, mythology scenes, and historical paintings. For his mythology paintings he mostly resorted to models of the highest aristocracy.

Works

• Resurrection (1763), altarpiece for the Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis (Hamburg), burned in 1906
• Transfiguration (1765), Lutherische Kirche in Kassel
• Passion and Ascension cycle (1778) for the St. Elisabeth Catholic Church in Kassel, now in the Dommuseum Fulda
• Kreuzabnahme und Himmelfahrt (1787), altarpiece for the St.-Jakobi-Kirche (Stralsund)
• Christ on the Mount of Olives (1788), Kloster Haina
• Allegory on the Founding of the Kasseler Akademie
• Hercules and Omphale
• May Day at Gut Freienhagen

Portraits

• Self portrait with his first wife
• The actress Evérard
• The poet Philippine Engelhard nee Gatterer
• Landgraf Friederick II