English 18th Century Portrait Sculpture: Johann Georg Platzer

The Sculptors Studio

Johann Georg Platzer (1704 - 61).

Some more images from the occasional series of Sculptors and Sculpture represented in two dimensions

Oil on Copper panel

55.5 x 74.9

Lot 51 - 5th July 2018

Christies, King Street, London.

An Austrian, Platzer was Court Painter in Plassau.

Johann Georg Platzer, who was born in 1704 in St Paul in Eppan, a small village in the South Tyrol, Austria. He came from a family of painters and was tutored, by his stepfather Josef Anton Kessler and then later by his uncle Christoph Platzer, who was the court painter in Passau.

In 1724 at the age of twenty, he painted an altarpiece for the church of St Helena in Deutschnofen. Probably after 1726 he went to Vienna, where he enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste and became a friend of Franz Christoph Janneck, one of the leading lights of Austrian Rococo art.

Perhaps because of a stroke that impeded his work, he returned to St Michael in Eppan by 1755. In 1761 Platzer died aged 57

for biography see -

Johann Georg Platzer: Der Farbenzauberer des Barock 1704-1761 (German) Hardcover – 1 Nov 2014

by Michael Krapf

Provenance

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727-1797), Shuvalov Palace, Saint Petersburg (according to an inscription on the reverse).

Sale of pictures from the Russian Imperial collections from the Hermitage, Michailoff Palace and Gatchina Palace; Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 6-7 November 1928, lot 414, where acquired by the family of the present owner.

Image courtesy Christie's

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/johann-georg-platzer-st-paul-in-eppan-6152955-details.aspx

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