Justus Juncker (c.1702-03-1767)

• Was a German genre and flower painter.
• Juncker was born in Mainz, Germany.
• He moved to Frankfurt as a child, where he studied under Johann Hugo Schlegel.
• He was married in Eschborn in 1722, and settled in Frankfurt in 1723, the year in which his son, Isaak, was born.
• Juncker was a teacher to his son Isaak Juncker and step-son Johann Daniel Bager.
• From the 1740s Juncker specialised in still life painting.
• Juncker was one of the artists that Johann Caspar Goethe (father of the famous German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) commissioned to decorate the Goethe family house.
• Juncker created two still-life paintings for Goethe, one of which is mentioned in the younger Goethe's autobiography "Dichtung und Wahrheit":

• "One such exquisite board was entrusted to the painter Juncker, who was to depict an ornate flowerpot with the most important flowers in his artificial and delicate manner."

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