Jan Jiří Heinsch (1647 – 1712)
• Was a Czech-German Baroque style artist.
• Heinsch was born in 1647 in Kłodzko (Glatz), to a Protestant family.
• He lived there until at least 1678, when he moved to Prague.
• In Prague, where he joined local painters' guilds while converted to Catholicism.
• He learned the art of one of the best Czech Baroque painters, Karel Škréta.
• In 1708, he entered the Augustinian monastery in Bělá pod Bezdězem in northern Bohemia.
• Heinsch died in Prague on September 9, 1712.
• In 1705, he painted one of his most renowned pictures – Saint Luke painting the Madonna.
• In 1707, together with
Jan Kryštof Liška, he worked on a series of portraits of the Grand Masters of the Red Star Crusaders.
• In addition to painting, Heinsch published several copperplate engraving illustrations.
• He is known to have produced around 150 paintings and, in addition, extensive graphic work.
