Johann Heinrich Roos
German Baroque landscape painter and etcher
Johann Heinrich Roos was a German Baroque era landscape painter and etcher. His family had emigrated to Amsterdam due to the Thirty Years' War in 1640. He trained with Guilliam du Gardijn, Cornelis de Bie and Barent Graat, but the landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem and Karel Dujardin were more of an influence on him. In 1653 the Roos family returned to Germany, where Johann and his brother Theodor Roos worked together on a commission for a cloister in Mainz. Between 1654 and 1659, Johann worked for Ernst, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (son of Maurice, lived 1623–1693), where he painted a portrait of A Prince (1654, Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum) and religious scenes. In 1664 he was invited to paint at the court of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Due to unsatisfactory working conditions, he moved with his family to Frankfurt in 1667 and was very successful, but lost everything in a fire in 1685. He died trying to save his belongings. Four sons and a daughter survived to become good painters. Though not registered as a pupil of Rembrandt, he made a copy of a painting by Rembrandt that he saw presumably in Amsterdam while he trained there from 1647 to 1653.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Cornelis de Bie Student
- Barend Graat Master
- Philipp Peter Roos Student
Fellow student
Influenced by
- Nicolaes Berchem Source
- Karel Dujardin Source
Parent child
- Johann Melchior Roos Child
- Philipp Peter Roos Child
Siblings
- Theodor Roos Unknown
Artworks by this artist (54 total)
- Still Life With Dead Poultry 1676
- Grasender Stier nach rechts
- King Johann Sobieski of Poland in the Battle of Vienna
- Landscape 1681
- Simeon mit dem Jesusknaben im Arm 1667
- Ruhender Hirt und Herde an römischem Brunnen ca 1670
- Ausziehende Hirten mit ihrer Herde in südlicher Berglandschaft ca 1670
- Shepherd’s Family at the Ruins of the Temple of Vespasian 1674
- Pastoral Scene Against Ruins 17th century
- Ein Mann mit übereinandergeschlagenen Beinen auf einem Stuhl sitzend
- Shepherdess and Flock in front of Antique Ruins 1667
- Indian taming a horse 1650
- The Battle of Vienna 1683
- Cow
- Herde von Ziegen, Schafen, Kühen und Pferden in einer italienischen Berglandschaft mit Ruinen
- Gypsy Camp in a Roman Ruin ca 1671
- Hirt und Herde in einer Berghöhle mit antikem Mauerwerk ca 1670
- Shepherd Family Resting near an Ancient Ruin 1680
- Antike Ruine an einem Bergsee, vorne rechts zwei Schafe
- Hirtin und Hirte mit ihrer Herde in einer Ruinenlandschaft, ein antikes Fresko betrachtend