LAMPS elder Johann Baptist (Lampi Johann Baptist)

December 31, 1751 (Romeno, South Tyrol) - February 11, 1830 (Vienna)

painter, graphic artist, miniaturist, muralist.

born in the family Tyrolean artist M. Lamp. He studied at the F. Koenig and F.-N. Streicher in Salzburg, then to his brothers Fr. and D. Lorenzo in Verona. In 1770 he worked in Italy. Took part in the decoration of churches, wrote altarpiece. In 1773 elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona. Since 1780 worked mainly on portrait painting.

In 1781-1788 he lived in Austria. In 1786 a portrait of Joseph II in the costume of the Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece was promoted to professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and was elected a member of its Council. In 1788, invited by Polish King Stanislaw August Poniatowski in Warsaw. Until 1791 he worked in Poland, returned briefly to Vienna. In the same year at the invitation of GA Potemkin of Tauride arrived at his headquarters in Iasi. In January 1792 on the recommendation of the Secretary Office of the Potemkin V. Popov summoned to Petersburg, where he remained until the spring of 1797.

worked at the court of Catherine II, where he found a patron in the person of Count PA Zubov. In 1792-1793 a portrait of the Empress in the growth of nature. In 1794 a portrait AI Musin-Pushkin was awarded an honorary associate of the Academy of the free IAH. In 1795, for portraits NBYusupov, PV Zavadovsky, Musin-Pushkin, free of charge made for the conference room of the Academy, was presented with a collection of medals. Posted by "... The writing is on the rules and the status of the Imperial Academy of Arts ...". He gave private lessons in Russian disciples, he taught VL Borovikovsky, miniaturist I. Malyshev, and others.

In 1797, following a special decree of Paul I of deprivation Lampi state pension was forced to leave Russia and go to Vienna. In 1798 received a knighthood, from this time signed his work as a Chevalier de Lampi. In 1799 he was awarded an honorary citizen of Vienna. For a portrait of the Swedish King Carl XIII was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden. From 1800 headed the Council of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. On its own funds, established the prize for best drawing from life for the students of the Vienna Academy. In 1805, appointed the custodian of the imperial art collection.

had its own extensive workshop in Vienna, where he executed the portrait orders. Assistants there were two sons of the artist - Johann Baptist Lampi, Jr. (1775-1837) and Franz Xavier Lampi (1783-1852). In 1822 he handed the management of the workshop of Lampi, Jr. and left the painting classes.

lamps are extremely popular in the XVIII century itinerant artist-type station wagon, traveling in search of lucrative orders and benevolent protectors. In Russia quickly became a fashionable painter, had a large workshop, in which he helped the elder son, Lampi, Jr.. According to contemporaries, the success of the father and son Lampi was so great that the Russian court was left literally not a single person who has not impressed them with a brush.

In his portraits the artist created an image of a successful courtier, poetiziruya brilliant career and a prominent position at court. In the words of art historian E. F. Gollerbakh, Lampi managed "in a generalized characteristic of him to capture the modern type of people, a kind of collective identity of the Russian aristocracy Catherine's time." Central place in the artist's work held the type of ceremonial and poluparadnogo portrait, with all its tenets and features of the image characteristics of the models. The coloring pictures - rich, yet soft and muted. It is dominated by cool gray-silver, blue tones, contrasting with the warm shades of red and brownish-yellow.

heroes Lampi there is some naive self-elimination from the realities of life and color to make beautiful. Expressions of stressed haughty and self-confident. Among the best works of masters - the portraits of Potemkin Tauride (1790), Empress Catherine II, NBYusupov, AN Samoilova, Bezborodko, Musina -Pushkin (all - 1794), Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna (no later than 1795), and ES Samoilova (1792-1796), PA Zubov (1793 and 1796), In . Zubov (1796), Stroganov (1790-e). Many were subsequently transferred to D. Walker engraving.

Lampi works are in many museum collections in Europe, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, State Hermitage Museum, State Historical Museum, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the National Museum in Warsaw and others.