Michael WILLMANN
1630–1706, Germany

Name Michael Leopold Lukas WILLMANN
Birth 1630, Germany
Died 1706
English

Michael Lukas Leopold Willmann – Prussian painter, son of painter Peter Willmann (1627 – 1665), in whose workhouse Michael studied. Around 1652 he traveled to Netherlands where he got inspired by Rembrandt, Peter Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and other landscape painters. Around 1653 he moved to Prague and then to Berlin where he worked in the court of Brandenburg´s prince elector, Fredric Vilem. He moved back to Prague for a short time in 1660 and converted to Catholicism and spend the rest of his life in Libus monastery by Wroclaw (Leubus, today Lubiaz, Czech Libus). Willmann worked mostly for Cistercian order but also for premonstratensian from Strahov or nobility.

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