Franz Werner Tamm

The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are floral. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Franz Werner Tamm is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Museo del Prado, Art Museum of Estonia, Städel Museum and Walters Art Museum.

• Name — Franz Werner von Tamm • Born — 6 March 1658 • Birthplace — Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire • Died — 10 July 1724 • Place of death — Vienna, Archduchy of Austria • Field — Genre painting • Training — Carlo Maratta • Movement — Baroque

Von Tamm was born in Hamburg. He was first trained in his hometown by German Baroque painters Dietrich von Sosten and Johann Joachim Pfeiffer. According to Houbraken, who called him Joano Vernero Tam in a poem about the members of the Bentvueghels, he joined the Bent with the name "Dapper" and was a good flower painter. In 1685, Tamm moved to Rome, where he became a member of the circle of Flemish artists led by Caspar van Wittel. In Rome he was trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. He was particularly influenced by the Flemish genre painter David de Coninck and became the teacher of Pietro Navarra. Tamm painted in the style of Frans Snyders and Jan Fyt, enriched with Italian stylistic elements, depicting still-lifes (Hamburger Kunsthalle), antique vases, reliefs and statues, and fruit and floral arrangements set in open landscapes. His somewhat dark, heavy colours and thick application of paint are reminiscent of pictures by Giovan Battista Ruoppolo. From the mid-1690s he lived and worked in Vienna as painter to the imperial court, leaving only occasionally to work in Liechtenstein and Passau (1702). During this period he painted in a style close to that of Jan van Huysum. He died in Vienna on 10 July 1724.

• Illustration — Flora Presenting a Basket with Flowers, c. 1680 • Illustration — Vase with Flowers, c. 1695 • Illustration — Dead Birds, c. 1705 • Illustration — Still Life With Hunting Trophies And A Young Dog, 1706 • Illustration — Flowers, c. 1700 • Illustration — Still life with Fruits, c. 1705 • Illustration — Still life with a musk melon