John Valentine Haidt
John Valentine Haidt (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.
Life
Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia (modern day Gdańsk, Poland).[1] He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.[2]
He began his artistic career when he was forty-five, forty-six years old.
He immigrated to the United States in 1754.[2] He was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church, and evangelized.[3]
He is known for his early dramatic paintings depicting Biblical ideas and his later portraits of Moravian church members and early leaders of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[4]
He died on 18 January 1780, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[2]
Paintings
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Young Moravian Girl c. 1755–60, oil
- Young Moravian Girl[5] c. 1755–60 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1754–1774[6]
- Christ Before Herod 1762[6]
- Johannetta Ettwein 1754[6]
- John Ettwein 1754[6]
- Lamentation Over the Body of Christ 1758[6]
- Christ Scourged 1758[6]
- Thomas Doubting 1758[6]
References
- ↑ "Johann Valentin Haidt - Dictionary of Art Historians". dictionaryofarthistorians.org.
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Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Haidt, John Valentine". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. - ↑ Pastan, Amy (1999). Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1. publ., 1. print. ed.). New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 58. ISBN 0-8230-0193-8.
- ↑ Morman, John F. (April 1953). "The Painting Preacher: John Valentine Haidt". Pennsylvania History (Penn State University Press) 20 (2): 180–186. JSTOR 27769412.
- ↑ "Young Moravian Girl by John Valentine Haidt / American Art". si.edu.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 http://bdhp.moravian.edu/art/paintings/art.html
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