Johann Franz Ermels - Landschaft mit Staffage - 6114 - Bavarian State Painting Collections

Johann Franz Ermels (1641 – December 1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch. He resided at

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, and painted for the church of St. Sebald in that city a picture of the ''Resurrection''; he was more successful, however, as a painter of landscapes, in which he imitated the style of Jan Both. He died at Nuremberg, aged 52. In the

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Gallery at Frankfort is a ''Landscape'' by him, with figures by J. H. Roos; and in the

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is a ''Landscape with Fishermen'' by him. A ''Landscape'' is also in the Milan Gallery. There are by him a few etchings of landscapes, after

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, Breenbergh, etc., executed with spirit and taste.

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* 1641 births 1693 deaths 17th-century painters from the Holy Roman Empire German landscape painters 17th-century German engravers People from Bernkastel-Wittlich {{Germany-painter-stub

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