
Unknown artist
Johann Friedrich Zöllner (1753-1804) was pastor at the Church of Mary and from 1788 provost at the Church of St. Nicholas in Berlin. The artist had presented the painting in 1793 as one of four important and respected at the Berlin Academy Exhibition, perhaps her teacher Christian Bernhard Rode (1725-1799) sent her the portrait order of this well-known personality from the Berlin Enlightenment District (Cat. Schwerin 2017, p. 35f.). It shows the theologian in Pastor’s Ornaate with a semicircle. In 1929 the portrait of the Berlin theologian Johann Friedrich Zöllner (1797) was still owned by the Church of the Virgin Mary. The engraving after this painting offers an excerpt as a chest image in the round.<br /;> <br /;> Old stock of the Märkisches Museum.<br /;> <br /;> Designated li. u. At the Round "Jul. de Lichewsky pinx.", re. u. "J. (LEFT?) S. Ringck sc. 96., “including the title:” J. F. Zoellner.", re. With brown ink four lines of biographical notes on the depicted.<br /;> <br /;> Literature: Painting is female. Friederike Juliane von Lisiewska - The Works at the State Museum Schwerin. With Beitr. Bärbel Kovalevski and Tobias Pfeiffer-Helke. Ed. State Museum Schwerin. Berlin 2017, p. 35f.
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