• Was a German painter. • The son of a goldsmith, was born in Nuremberg. • He is known today primarily because of his very finely painted copper panels. • He spent a year staying in Venice and in Rome from 1610 to 1614. • In 1614 he returned to Augsburg and married and also received the painter rights by the local guild. • In 1622 he became a member of the painters' guild, a year later, he became a member of the Great Council. • After 1620 he worked with Matthias Gundelach and Johann Matthias Kager together on the decorations of Augsburg Town Hall created by Elias Holl. • After Edict of Restitution followed on religious grounds by 1631 the return to Nuremberg, where he died after further work in March 1942. • Next
Johann König, The Resurrection of Christ, 1622
Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.
