page_title: Johann König (painter)
section_title: Oeuvre
hierarchical_section_title: Johann König (painter) / Oeuvre
context_page_description: Johann König was a German painter. The son of a Nuremberg goldsmith, König was a follower of Adam Elsheimer. He is known today primarily because of his very finely painted copper panels.
context_section_description: König was known as a painter of small-format images on copper and colorful miniatures and Kunstkammer pieces on marble. Philipp Hainhofer liked him very much and gave him time and again pedigree sheets etc. Orders. The amenities of the Augsburg Town Hall were with him the three monumental pictures of the room and the southwestern Prince courtroom commissioned.
  Less well known is König for a series of large canvases with personifications of virtues and Roman rulers, which he painted for the Town Hall in Augsburg, and are now on display along with five drawings in the municipal art collections in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg. Other works of König are in Paris Louvre, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the art gallery in Berlin, the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe in National Museum of Germanic in Nuremberg and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
  This is followed by some unique pieces of medium-large format on canvas as the painting of Saint Peter, in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig and the painting of the stoning of St. Stephen.
caption: The cross-bearing Jesus
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