Bartolomeo Altomonte

Bartolomeo Altomonte, also known as Bartholomäus Hohenberg (24 February 1694, in Warsaw – 11 November 1783, in Sankt Florian), was an Austrian baroque painter who specialized in large scale frescoes. He was the son of Martino Altomonte, also a painter.

Self-portrait, Oil on canvas
The Four Seasons Favoring Chronos (1737), oil on canvas. In the collection of the Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
Ceiling frescoes at the Wilhering Abbey

Biography

Altomonte was born in Warsaw, where his father, Martino Altomonte, had been appointed to the court of Jan Sobieskis.[1] He was the third of six children. Altomonte spent most of his life in Linz and worked primarily in Austrian monasteries such as St. Florian's Priory and Admont Abbey.[2] He learned from assisting his father at painting, but also from an apprenticeship with Daniel Gran. Tendencies towards the rococo remained foreign to the artist all his life; he is considered one of the last great painters in the manner of the baroque allegory.

References
  1. Lehr 2004, p. 171.
  2. Salvadori 1891, p. 126; Duller 1845, p. 506

Bibliography
  • Duller, Eduard (1845). Maria Teresa ed i suoi tempi [Maria Teresa and her times] (in Italian). Vol. 1. Milano: Carlo Rettig.
  • Weiß (1875), "Altomonte", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 1, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 372
  • Heinzl, Brigitte (2003). "Altomonte family". Grove Art Online. Oxford: OUP. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t002146. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4.
  • Lehr, Rudolf (2004). Landeschronik Oberösterreich 3000 Jahre in Daten, Dokumenten und Bildern [Country chronicle of Upper Austria 3000 years in data, documents and images] (in German). Vienna. ISBN 978-3-85498-331-6.
  • Salvadori, Giovanni (1891). La congregazione della chiesa nazionale italiana in Vienna. Notizie storiche estratte da documenti originali [The congregation of the Italian national church in Vienna. Historical information extracted from original documents] (in Italian). Vol. 1. Drexher & Company.
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