John Valentine Haidt (an anglicanization of Johann Valentin Haidt) (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.

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

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Young Moravian Girl c. 1755–60, oil

Works preserved at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (partial list):

References

  1. ^ "Johann Valentin Haidt - Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info.
  2. ^ a b c Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Haidt, John Valentine" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  3. ^ Pastan, Amy (1999). Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1. publ., 1. print. ed.). New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 58. ISBN 0-8230-0193-8.
  4. ^ Morman, John F. (April 1953). "The Painting Preacher: John Valentine Haidt". Pennsylvania History. 20 (2). Penn State University Press: 180–186. JSTOR 27769412.
  5. ^ "Young Moravian Girl by John Valentine Haidt / American Art". si.edu.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "B.D.H.P. - Art". bdhp.moravian.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Edward VI Granting Permission to John a Lasco to Set Up a Congregation for European Protestants in London in 1550 | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-05-04.

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