Franz Werner von Tamm

Franz Werner von Tamm
Still life with a musk melon, National Museum, Warsaw
Born(1658-03-06)6 March 1658
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
Died10 July 1724(1724-07-10) (aged 66)
Vienna, Archduchy of Austria
EducationCarlo Maratta
Known forGenre painting
MovementBaroque

Franz Werner von Tamm (6 March 1658 – 10 July 1724) was a German Baroque painter who travelled to and worked in Italy.

Biography

Von Tamm was born in Hamburg. He was first trained in his hometown by German Baroque painters Dietrich von Sosten and Johann Joachim Pfeiffer. According to Houbraken, who called him Joano Vernero Tam in a poem about the members of the Bentvueghels, he joined the Bent with the name "Dapper" and was a good flower painter.[1]

In 1685, Tamm moved to Rome, where he became a member of the circle of Flemish artists led by Caspar van Wittel.[2] In Rome he was trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta.[3] He was particularly influenced by the Flemish genre painter David de Coninck and became the teacher of Pietro Navarra.[4]

Tamm painted in the style of Frans Snyders and Jan Fyt, enriched with Italian stylistic elements, depicting still-lifes (Hamburger Kunsthalle), antique vases, reliefs and statues, and fruit and floral arrangements set in open landscapes. His somewhat dark, heavy colours and thick application of paint are reminiscent of pictures by Giovan Battista Ruoppolo.

From the mid-1690s he lived and worked in Vienna as painter to the imperial court, leaving only occasionally to work in Liechtenstein and Passau (1702).[5] During this period he painted in a style close to that of Jan van Huysum. He died in Vienna on 10 July 1724.

  • Flora Presenting a Basket with Flowers, c. 1680
    Flora Presenting a Basket with Flowers, c. 1680
  • Vase with Flowers, c. 1695
    Vase with Flowers, c. 1695
  • Dead Birds, c. 1705
    Dead Birds, c. 1705
  • Still Life With Hunting Trophies And A Young Dog, 1706
    Still Life With Hunting Trophies And A Young Dog, 1706
  • Flowers, c. 1700
    Flowers, c. 1700
  • Still life with Fruits, c. 1705
    Still life with Fruits, c. 1705

References

  1. ^ (in Dutch) Franz Werner von Tamm Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ Franz Werner von Tamm at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Rosini, Giovanni (1847). Storia della Pittura Italiana esposta coi Monumenti, Epoca Quarta: Dai Carracci all'Appiani; Volume VII. Presso Niccolò Capurro, Pisa; Original from Oxford University digitized Jan 4, 2007. pp. 81. Giovanni Rosini epoca quarta.
  4. ^ Franz Werner von Tamm at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  5. ^ Franz Werner von Tamm at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)

Bibliography

  • Franz Werner von Tamm on Artnet
  • Pascoli, Lione (1730–36). Vite de’ pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni. Vol. 2. Rome. pp. 368–78.
  • Balthasar Denner. Franz Werner Tamm (exh. cat., Hamburg, B. A. T. Haus, 1969), pp. 29–36.
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