Johann Christoph Handke
Johann Christoph Handke (Czech: Jan Kryštof Handke; February 18, 1694 in Rýmařov – December 31, 1774 in Olomouc) was a baroque painter from Moravia. He was the brother-in-law of the painter Joseph Ignatz Sadler. He made frescos as well as oil paintings.
Works[]
Fresco of Approving of bylaw of Society of Jesus depicting Ignatius of Loyola receiving papal bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae from Pope Paul III. Fresco was painted in Church of Our Lady Of the Snow in Olomouc after 1743.
Illusionistic ceiling painting in Kaple Božího Těla Chapel in Olomouc. Statues were made by .
Oil painting of in
External links[]
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- 1694 births
- 1774 deaths
- Czech painters
- Czech male painters
- Baroque painters
- People from Rýmařov
- Moravian-German people
- Czech painter stubs