John Valentine Haidt
German-born American painter and Moravian preacher
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Life
Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia (modern day Gdańsk, Poland).[1] He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.[2]
When he was 45 or 46 years old, Haidt set out on an artistic career. He immigrated to British North America in 1754.[2] He was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church, and evangelized.[3]
Haidt is known for his early dramatic paintings depicting Biblical ideas, and his later portraits of Moravian church members and early leaders of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[4] He died on 18 January 1780, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[2]
Paintings
- Young Moravian Girl[5] c. 1755–60 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1754–1774[6]
- Christ Before Herod 1762[6]
- Johannetta Ettwein 1754[6]
- John Ettwein 1754[6]
- Lamentation Over the Body of Christ 1758[6]
- Christ Scourged 1758[6]
- Thomas Doubting 1758[6]
- Edward VI Granting Permission to John a Lasco to Set Up a Congregation for European Protestants in London in 1550[7]
Works preserved at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (partial list):
- John Ettwein, 1754
- Anna Nitschmann
- Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
- Portrait of a Young Girl
- Nativity
- Nathanael Seidel
- Georg Neisser
- Martin Mack, ca. 1757/1758
- Johann Michael Graff, ca. 1759/1760
- Andreas Anton Lawatsch, ca. 1756/1757
- The First Fruits (Erstlingsbild)
- Anna Rosina Anders, ca. 1759/1760
- Johann Arbo
- Christian G. Seidel, ca. 1756/1757
- Ferdinand Dettmers
- Leonhard Dober
- Abraham and Isaac
- Pentecost
- Father David Nitschmann
- Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf
- Johann and Susanna Nitschmann
- David Zeisberger, ca. 1761/1762
- Lindsey House Staircase, I, 1752
- Lindsey House Staircase, II, 1752
- Zinzendorf's Grand Tour, 1719-1721, bef. 1754
- The Act of Parliament, 1749, bef. 1754
- Catharina Huber
- Friedrich Cammerhoff
- August Gottlieb Spangenberg
- Friedrich Martin
- Amadeus Paul Thrane, aft. 1761
- Anna Maria Lawatsch
- Anna Mack
- Catharina Theodora Neisser
- Gottlieb Bezold (Pezold), ca. 1756/1757
- Peter Boehler
- Paul Muenster, ca. 1761
- Jesus Showing His Side Wound
- Martha Spangenberg
- Elisabeth Boehler
- Gertraud Graff
- George Burnet, ca. 1757
- Ismaiah Burnet, ca. 1757
- Nativity of Christ, ca. 1750
