Christian Berentz

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Christian Berentz, Flowers, Fruit with a Woman Picking Grapes, by Berentz and Carlo Maratta, National Museum of Capodimonte, 1689

Christian Berentz or Bernetz[1] (1658–1722) was a German Baroque painter.

Biography[]

Berentz was born in Hamburg, Germany. According to the RKD pupil he was the pupil of from 1667 to 1673 and then from 1673 to 1677 a pupil of Georg Hainz.[2] 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.[2] Like Franz Werner von Tamm (called Dapper), he is registered as the teacher of .[2] Like Tamm, Berentz is also registered as working in the Carlo Maratta studio. He is known for still lifes in the manner of Pieter Claesz, , Willem Kalf, Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, and Francesco Noletti.[2]

In Rome in the 1700s, he lived in the house of Marchese Pallavicini. Berentz painted primarily still lifes, and was important, because he introduced North European themes.[3] He died in Rome in 1722.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Verzeichniss der kurfurstllichen Gemahlde-Sammlung. 1830. p. 114.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Christian Berentz in the RKD
  3. ^ "Christian Berentz" (in German). Dorotheum GmbH & Co KG. Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  4. ^ "Brief Bio Christian Berentz". Retrieved 2009-10-23.

Simona Sperindei, Niccolò Maria Pallavicini, mecenate, collezionista e protettore di Christian Berentz, in "Annali della Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon", XII, 2012, pp. 537–542.


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