Johann König (1586-1642)

• 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 1642.
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