Artwork
Cityscape with Christ healing a man born blind
Cityscape with Christ healing a man born blind is an oil painting by the Early Baroque Italian artist Johann Georg Fischer. It dates from 1611 and is held in the collection of the Bavarian State Painting Collections.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
Johann Georg Fischer's 1611 oil painting depicts the biblical miracle of Jesus Christ healing a man born blind.
Johann Georg Fischer's 1611 oil painting depicts the biblical miracle of Jesus Christ healing a man born blind. While the work is classified as a cityscape, its primary iconographic focus is this specific religious event, merging an urban backdrop with a narrative from the Gospel of John. The composition utilizes the city setting not merely as scenery but as the stage for the divine intervention, highlighting the intersection of daily life and sacred history.
By placing the miraculous cure within a detailed urban environment, the artwork emphasizes the presence of the holy within the mundane world, serving as a visual representation of spiritual enlightenment occurring amidst ordinary human surroundings.
Technique & Style
Oil paint applied to a wooden panel creates the painted surface of this 1611 cityscape, housed in the Alte Pinakothek. The work depicts Jesus Christ restoring sight to a blind man amid an urban setting, rendered with compositional focus on the miraculous moment. Formal qualities include balanced architectural elements framing the spiritual narrative and chiaroscuro modeling characteristic of early 17th-century German painting.
History & Provenance
Johann Georg Fischer created the painting Cityscape with Christ healing a man born blind in 1611. Executed in oil paint on panel, the artwork depicts the religious subject of Jesus Christ healing a man born blind within a cityscape setting.
The work is currently held by the Bavarian State Painting Collections and is located at the Alte Pinakothek. Specific details regarding its original commission and the broader chain of ownership prior to its modern institutional custody are not established in the available sources.
The painting is held in the collection of the Bavarian State Painting Collections and is located at the Alte Pinakothek. Created in 1611, the work measures 43.3 cm in height and 56.7 cm in width. The provided sources do not contain specific inventory numbers or details regarding its exhibition history.
Overview
Johann Georg Fischer, an Augsburg-born painter active in the early Baroque, completed an oil painting in 1611 that combines a biblical miracle with an urban setting. The work, titled Cityscape with Christ healing a man born blind, is part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Artist & collection
Artist
Johann Georg Fischer, an historical painter, was born at Augsburg in 1580. He travelled in Italy, but became an imitator of Albrecht Dürer. He died at Munich in 1643. The following are by him: Munich. Gallery. Christ…
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