A lőcsei Baumerth festő-fivérekről

Abstract

The names and the few known works by Johann and Christian Baumerth slightly run into one another in the Hungarian art historical literature. On the basis of the data in registers of birth of the evangelical church in Lőcse (Levoča) became clear that we could talk about two painters who were brothers. Johann Baumerth (11 March, 1788–5 March, 1833) worked as a teacher of drawing in the evangelical secondary school for girls in Lőcse (Levoča). His younger brother Christian (8 May, 1792–18 July, 1824) was the pupil of the painter József Czauczik and wanted to develop his knowledge in the Academy of Arts Vienna. His early work is a memorial leaf of Anna Mária Horváth Stansith, wife of Ferenc Máriássy at her death in 1810. We know a few more works of Johann Baumerth. The engravings of the cities of Rozsnyó (Rožňava) and Igló (Spišská Nová Ves) probably were made after his own drawings around 1820. Two gouache paintings (1810) by him recently appeared in art dealer’s gallery, a romantic style landscape and a biblical genre, which remind us to the early romantic landscape painting of Károly Kisfaludy (1788–1830). One of these pictures, the Shipwreck on stormy sea, was made after the composition by Claude Joseph Vernet.