Johann Conrad Seekatz (1719–1768)

• Was a German painter.
• Seekatz was the son of the Worms court painter Johann Martin Seekatz and Juliana Magdalena Kuhlmann.

• He painted social and military scenes, genre paintings from peasant life and landscapes with biblical staffage following the Dutch, especially Adriaen Brouwer. 

• Johann Conrad Seekatz was trained by his older brother Johann Ludwig Seekatz.

• He also painted and both took over a commission in 1747 to decorate the organ loft in the Bergkirche Osthofen, which they carried out together. 

• Here the great talent of Johann Conrad was already shown. 

• The latter then worked in Osthofen largely only as a decorative painter.

• The paintings of the Seekatz brothers in the Osthofen mountain church were in very poor condition for decades and were extensively restored in 2003 under the aegis of the then pastor Volker Johannes Fey.

• From 1753 Johann Conrad Seekatz worked as a court painter in Darmstadt. 

• He also frequented Goethe's father in Frankfurt am Main and painted his family.

• Seekatz also painted realistic genre paintings from the bourgeois milieu and landscapes in the Dutch style.

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