David Kindt (1580 – 1652)

• Was a German painter in the Baroque style.
• He was born in Hamburg.
• His father was the painter Johan, or Jan, Kindt (died 1608).
• Nothing is known of his childhood or education.
• By 1604, he was receiving orders from many of the notable families of Hamburg.
• The following year, he was given full Bürgerrechte and was married to Anna Lange.
• They had nine children, but only two survived into adulthood.
• One, Hieronymus, also became an artist.
• That same year, he was named a Master Of Painting and acquired his first apprentice; a young man named Leonhardt Schers
• In 1613, he was commissioned to make two maps of the Elbe.
• The following year saw him involved in a restoration project at the Maria-Magdalenen-Kloster (now the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist.
• He became a Bürgerkapitän in the Civil Guard in 1625.
• Four years later, he became an Ältermann for the Painter's Guild. 

• In 1631, he received a commission for four life-size portraits of Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony.

• He owned several houses in Hamburg.

• He died in 1652 in Hamburg.

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