John Valentine Haidt
John Valentine Haidt was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.
Life
Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia.He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.
When he was 45 or 46 years old, Haidt set out on an artistic career. He immigrated to British North America in 1754. He was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church, and evangelized.
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. He died on 18 January 1780, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Paintings
- Young Moravian Girl 1755-60
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1754-1774
- Christ Before Herod 1762
- Johannetta Ettwein 1754
- John Ettwein 1754
- Lamentation Over the Body of Christ 1758
- Christ Scourged 1758
- Thomas Doubting 1758
- Edward VI Granting Permission to John a Lasco to Set Up a Congregation for European Protestants in London in 1550
- John Ettwein, 1754Anna NitschmannRebecca and Eliezer at the WellPortrait of a Young GirlNativityNathanael SeidelGeorg NeisserMartin Mack, ca. 1757/1758Johann Michael Graff, ca. 1759/1760Andreas Anton Lawatsch, ca. 1756/1757The First Fruits Anna Rosina Anders, ca. 1759/1760Johann ArboChristian G. Seidel, ca. 1756/1757Ferdinand DettmersLeonhard DoberAbraham and IsaacPentecostFather David NitschmannChristian Renatus von ZinzendorfJohann and Susanna NitschmannDavid Zeisberger, ca. 1761/1762Lindsey House Staircase, I, 1752Lindsey House Staircase, II, 1752Zinzendorf's Grand Tour, 1719-1721, bef. 1754The Act of Parliament, 1749, bef. 1754Catharina HuberFriedrich CammerhoffAugust Gottlieb SpangenbergFriedrich MartinAmadeus Paul Thrane, aft. 1761Anna Maria LawatschAnna MackCatharina Theodora NeisserGottlieb Bezold , ca. 1756/1757Peter BoehlerPaul Muenster, ca. 1761Jesus Showing His Side WoundMartha SpangenbergElisabeth BoehlerGertraud GraffGeorge Burnet, ca. 1757Ismaiah Burnet, ca. 1757Nativity of Christ, ca. 1750