John Valentine Haidt (an anglicanization of Johann Valentin Haidt) (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.
Life
editHaidt 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]
When he was 45 or 46 years old, Haidt set out on an artistic career. He immigrated to British North America in 1754.[2] He was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church, and evangelized.[3]
Haidt 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[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]
- Edward VI Granting Permission to John a Lasco to Set Up a Congregation for European Protestants in London in 1550[7]
Works preserved at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (partial list):
- John Ettwein, 1754
- Anna Nitschmann
- Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
- Portrait of a Young Girl
- Nativity
- Nathanael Seidel
- Georg Neisser
- Martin Mack, ca. 1757/1758
- Johann Michael Graff, ca. 1759/1760
- Andreas Anton Lawatsch, ca. 1756/1757
- The First Fruits (Erstlingsbild)
- Anna Rosina Anders, ca. 1759/1760
- Johann Arbo
- Christian G. Seidel, ca. 1756/1757
- Ferdinand Dettmers
- Leonhard Dober
- Abraham and Isaac
- Pentecost
- Father David Nitschmann
- Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf
- Johann and Susanna Nitschmann
- David Zeisberger, ca. 1761/1762
- Lindsey House Staircase, I, 1752
- Lindsey House Staircase, II, 1752
- Zinzendorf's Grand Tour, 1719-1721, bef. 1754
- The Act of Parliament, 1749, bef. 1754
- Catharina Huber
- Friedrich Cammerhoff
- August Gottlieb Spangenberg
- Friedrich Martin
- Amadeus Paul Thrane, aft. 1761
- Anna Maria Lawatsch
- Anna Mack
- Catharina Theodora Neisser
- Gottlieb Bezold (Pezold), ca. 1756/1757
- Peter Boehler
- Paul Muenster, ca. 1761
- Jesus Showing His Side Wound
- Martha Spangenberg
- Elisabeth Boehler
- Gertraud Graff
- George Burnet, ca. 1757
- Ismaiah Burnet, ca. 1757
- Nativity of Christ, ca. 1750
References
edit- ^ "Johann Valentin Haidt - Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info.
- ^ a b c Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . 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. pp. 58. ISBN 0-8230-0193-8.
- ^ Morman, John F. (April 1953). "The Painting Preacher: John Valentine Haidt". Pennsylvania History. 20 (2). Penn State University Press: 180–186. JSTOR 27769412.
- ^ "Young Moravian Girl by John Valentine Haidt / American Art". si.edu.
- ^ a b c d e f g "B.D.H.P. - Art". bdhp.moravian.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Edward VI Granting Permission to John a Lasco to Set Up a Congregation for European Protestants in London in 1550 | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
External links
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- Biography listing at Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Painting Preacher: John Valentine Haidt by John F. Morman
- Entry at Dictionary of Art Historians
Literature
edit- Vernon H. Nelson. John Valentine Haidt: The Life of a Moravian Painter. Bethlehem: Moravian Archives, 2012.