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Portret van de schilder Johannes Lingelbach, RP-P-OB-17.376
Mezzotint of Johannes Lingelbach by Bernard Vaillant

Johannes (or Johann) Lingelbach (1622– 3 November 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, associated with the second generation of Bambocciate, a group of genre painters working in Rome from 1625–1700.

Biography

Lingelbach was born in Frankfurt as the son of David Lingelbach, a German innkeeper, who settled in Amsterdam with his wife and children in 1636 but remarried twice. In 1638 the father hired a labyrinth at Prinsengracht and started a new one at Rozengracht in 1646. Together with his son Philip he furnished the garden with an astronomical clock and machines, that could move or play music and depicting biblical or mythological scenes.

Johannes lived in Paris between 1642 and 1644, and moved to Lyon, Genoa and Rome where he collaborated with several Bentvueghels located near Piazza di Spagna before returning to Amsterdam in June 1650. In 1653 he married and his children were baptized in the Lutheran church. Initially he lived in or next to the labyrinth (and opposite of Rembrandt and Jan Abrahamsz. van Beerstraten) but in 1662 Lingelbach bought a house at Reestraat, now part of Hotel Pulitzer. He was friendly with Karel Dujardin, Jurriaen Ovens and Joan Huydecoper II living at Lauriergracht.

2020 Reestraat 4
Reestraat 4

Style

Who instructed him is not known, but he may have been a pupil of Philips Wouwerman as his works show an influence from Wouwerman's landscapes. Lingelbach's skill in painting genre figures is no less accomplished in his depictions of architectural and natural objects. He was often invited to paint the figures and animals within other artists landscape pieces, such as the Dutch master landscape painter, Beerstraten, Meindert Hobbema and Jan van der Heyden. His study of architectural forms came from observing the paintings of another Bamboccianti, Viviano Codazzi, an architectural Vedutisti, or view painter. Lingelbach’s forms were accomplished in there effects of light and spatial accuracy, but much freer than that of Codazzi.

SA 3044-De Dam, gezien naar het Noorden, met het Stadhuis in aanbouw-De Dam, met vismarkt
Dam Square (1656) with town hall under construction and Wisselbank to the left

Lingelbach followed the style of the original Bamboccianti, called Il Bamboccio, bringing his own Italianate style into influence of Northern European painters. He is one of the few Dutch painters of the Bamboccianti, whose works are documented in depth, making his influence greater in the progression of the style. Some of his works in Rome were once attributed to Pieter van Laer, but are now rightfully claimed to be Lingelbach’s, such as his, Roman Street Scene with Card Players, (National Gallery). These works show the Italian influence of Caravaggio in their realism and refined chiaroscuro effect, also seen in works such as Lingelbach's, Figures before a Locanda, with a View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome, (Royal Collection). Lingelbach was buried in the Lutheran Church at Singel.

Selected works

Lingelbach, Johannes - Schlacht an der Milvischen Brücke - c. 1650
Battle of Milvian Bridge, c. 1650.
Lingelbach, Johannes - Flemish Town Sieged by the Spanish Soldiers - c. 1674
Flemish Town Sieged by the Spanish Soldiers, c. 1674.
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