Justus Juncker (24 July 1703 – 14 June 1767) was a German

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and flower painter. He is also known for his association with

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tr ...

and his father

Johann Caspar Goethe Johann Caspar Goethe (29 July 1710 – 25 May 1782) was a wealthy German jurist and royal councillor to the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire. His son, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is considered one of the greatest German poets and authors of all ti ...

Biography

Juncker was born in

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, Germany – then an independent state of the

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– on 24 July 1703. He moved to

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as a child, where he studied under Johann Hugo Schlegel. He was subsequently influenced by the collection of Baron von Häckel, and specifically the collection's works from the Dutch painter

Thomas Wijck Thomas Wijck (also Thomas Wijk, or Thomas Wyck; 1616–1677) was a Dutch painter of port views and genre paintings. Biography Wijck was born into an artist family and received his training from his father. He journeyed to Italy, presumably by 16 ...

. It is alleged that Juncker lived in

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for a short time, but this is not documented. He was married in

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in 1722, and settled in Frankfurt in 1723, the year in which his son, Isaak, was born. In 1826 Juncker obtained

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in Frankfurt. Juncker was a teacher to his son Isaak Juncker and step-son

Johann Daniel Bager Johann Daniel Bager, who was born at Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with ...

, who both became painters in their own right. From the 1740s Juncker specialised in

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painting, though he also created several

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s after this point. Juncker was one of the artists that

(father of the famous German writer

) commissioned to decorate the Goethe family house after the death of Johann Caspar's mother in 1854. Juncker created two still-life paintings for Goethe, one of which is mentioned in the younger Goethe's autobiography "

Dichtung und Wahrheit ''Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit'' (''From my Life: Poetry and Truth''; 1811–1833) is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for ...

In his later years, Juncker tried to found a drawing and painting school in Frankfurt with other artists, but the project never came to fruition.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Juncker, Justus 1703 births 1767 deaths 18th-century German painters Artists from Frankfurt