David Kindt (1580 – 26 February 1652) was a German painter in the

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Biography

He was born in

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. His father was the painter Johan, or Jan, Kindt (died 1608), who had fled from religious persecution in the

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. Nothing is known of his childhood or education, although it is presumed that he learned painting from his father, and his early work is in the style of the Flemish Masters. By 1604, he was receiving orders from many of the notable families of Hamburg. The following year, he was given full Bürgerrechte and was married to Anna Lange, daughter of the

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, Johannes Lange. They had nine children, but only two survived into adulthood. One, Hieronymus (1612-1685), also became an artist, but his works have not been identified. That same year, he was named a Master Of Painting and acquired his first apprentice; a young man named Leonhardt Schers (died 1650/51), about whom nothing is now known. In 1608, Schers broke his contract, resulting in litigation that dragged on until 1621. Kindt must have had a busy workshop, however, as he was able to support two other apprentices; Bastian Kerch, also forgotten, and Conradt (Cordt) Weyer (died 1628), who is known only from his address in municipal documents. In 1613, he was commissioned to make two maps of the

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. The following year saw him involved in a restoration project at the Maria-Magdalenen-Kloster (now the ), where he worked on two paintings of

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; one showing him in full armor and the other as a monk in a

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. He became a in the Civil Guard in 1625.

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''Memoriae Hamburgenses''
Vol.3, Hamburg 1730 Four years later, he became an (public spokesman) for the Painter's Guild. In 1631, he received a commission for four life-size portraits of

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and his wife,

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, which necessitated spending several months at

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. He resigned the office of Bürgerkapitän in 1637, and that of Ältermann the following year. He owned several houses in Hamburg; one at what is now the

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. He died in 1652 in Hamburg and was interred at St. Nicholas' Church, which was largely destroyed during World War II. In 1929, a street was named after him in the

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David Kindt
@ ''Hamburger Persönlichkeiten'',

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kindt, David 1580 births 1652 deaths 17th-century German painters German portrait painters German people of Flemish descent Painters from Hamburg

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