John Valentine Haidt

John Valentine Haidt (an anglicanization of Johann Valentin Haidt) (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.

Life

Haidt 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

Young Moravian Girl c. 1755–60, oil
  • 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

  1. ^ "Johann Valentin Haidt - Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info.
  2. ^ a b c Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Haidt, John Valentine" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Morman, John F. (April 1953). "The Painting Preacher: John Valentine Haidt". Pennsylvania History. 20 (2). Penn State University Press: 180–186. JSTOR 27769412.
  5. ^ "Young Moravian Girl by John Valentine Haidt / American Art". si.edu.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "B.D.H.P. - Art". bdhp.moravian.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  7. ^ "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.
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Literature

  • Vernon H. Nelson. John Valentine Haidt: The Life of a Moravian Painter. Bethlehem: Moravian Archives, 2012.