Johann Peter Molitor

Drawings

Hellenica World, Paintings, Drawings

Dedication of a thesis writing of Emperor Charles VI.

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Jan Peter Molitor, in German Peter Johann Molitor, originally Peter Miller (1702 Schadeck at Koblenz - April 3, 1756, Krakow), was a German late Baroque painter who lived and worked in Prague since 1730.
Jan Petr Molitor: Portrait of Wenceslas Count Morzin, 1736

Life

He was born as Peter Miller, he studied painting in Bonn, Berlin and Dresden, where he left for Prague in 1730. Here he was taught by V. V. Reiner, converted to the Catholic faith, and began to write in a polished name called Molitor. He was admitted to the Old Town community of painters, in 1734 he became a master, married and had six sons and a daughter. In 1756 he went to Krakow, where he suddenly died. [1]
Work

He painted a large number of paintings, especially in churches, as well as portraits, allegories, landscapes, etc. He was also a painter of frescoes and decorated a church in Uhříněvsi.

Wall paintings

Liběchov, the Church of St. Havla (1741) [2]
Hořín, Chateau Hořín, chapel of St. Jana Nepomuckého - apotheosis of the saint (1746) [2]
Dobříš, Dobříš Chateau, Main Hall, Allegory of the Seasons (1746) [2]
Prague Castle, Institute of Noblemen, Chapel of the Holy Trinity (1755) [2]
Uhříněves, the Church of All Saints, the Holy Trinity and four apostles in the presbytery [3]

Suspended and altar paintings

Kojetice, the church of St. Vitus, Death of St. Frantisek Xaversky (1733) [2]
Prague, Břevnov Monastery, refectory, cycle of saints images [2]
Jemniště, chateau chapel (1744) [2]
Zaječ, Holy Blessed Monastery, Church of Our Lady, Establishment of St. Goodbye (1745) [2]
Prague, the Church of St. Yilie, Christ's Lamentation (1750-1751) [2]
Teplá, Teplá Monastery, the Church of the Annunciation, Annunciation of the Virgin Mary (1753) [2]
Sázava, the Church of St. Prokop, Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1755) [2]

Portraits

Podobizna vojvoda (1736), National Gallery [2]
Portrait of Man with Lute (1741), National Gallery [2]
Jindřich Pavel Mansfeld and Josefina M. roz. Černínová (1746), Dobříš Chateau [2]
Opat B. Grundmann (1753), Broumov, Museum [2]
Abbot Tomas Sartorius (1755), Chateau Mělník [2]
Jan Ignác Gemrich and his wife Rozalia Luitgard (1755), a private collection [2]

Gallery

Portrait of Wenceslas Count Morzin, 1736

Portrait of Abbot Bedrich Grundmann, ca. 1752 to 1756

Portrait of a man with a lute, 1741

Holy Family, before 1756

Cistercian monks, before 1756

Portrait of Václav Vavřince Reiner, before 1756

Links
Reference
P. Toman, Dictionary of Czechoslovak Fine Artists, p. 215.
New Encyclopedia of Czech Fine Arts, Academia, Prague 1995

Artistic monuments of Bohemia. Academia, Praha 1982.

Literature

P. Toman, Dictionary of Czechoslovak Fine Artists. Prague: B. Kočí 1927

Artist, Germany