Gottfried Libalt (1610/11 - 1673)
• Was a German painter in the Mannerist style.
• Known mostly for still-lifes, although he also did landscapes and portraits.
• He worked in Hamburg, Kraków and Vienna.
• Around 1660, he also spent a short time in Flanders, perhaps working with Philips Wouwerman.
• In 1652, he painted a panoramic view of Kraków.
• In 1655, he did an altarpiece on the Crucifixion for a church in the village of Jaidhof in Waldviertel.
• Other works are in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Many are only known through documents in the archives of aristocratic families.
• His still lifes are of the Central European type, but he often personalized them for his major clients, such as Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.
• The only documented event of his life was his death, in Vienna, at the home of Johann Kunibert von Wentzelsber, an art collector who worked as an agent for Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn.
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Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with a Bust of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, 1660
Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with a Bust of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, 1660
Gottfried Libalt, Still-Life with Game-Birds, first half of 17th century
Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Visited in 2020.
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with a Dead Hare, 1643
Original, National Gallery Prague. Visited in 2017-2021.
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with a Dead Hare, 1643
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with Dead Birds and Fruit, 1643
Original, National Gallery Prague. Visited in 2017-2021.
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with Dead Birds and Fruit, 1643
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with Dead Birds and Fruit, 1643
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with Dead Birds and Fruit, 1643
