JANNECK, Franz Christoph

Austrian painter. He was a pupil of Matthias Vangus (fl 1716) in Graz before he came to Vienna, where he was first mentioned in documents of the 1730s. His younger brother, Matthias Jakob, studied at the Viennese academy in 1728-30 and in 1733. About 1735 Janneck travelled in Austria and southern Germany; in Frankfurt am Main he met Karl Aigen (1684-1762), Christian Hilfgott Brand and Josef Orient (1677-1747). In 1740 he studied at the Viennese academy, joining the Frey-Compagnie (a voluntary military company) in 1741. With Paul Troger, and later with Michelangelo Unterberger, he held the office of assessor at the academy between 1752 and 1758.

Janneck's reputation as one of the leading lights of the Austrian RococoGLOSSARYA style of design, painting, and architecture dominating the 18th century, often considered the last stage of the Baroque. Developing in the Paris townhouses of the French aristocracy at the turn of the 18th century, Rococo was elegant and ornately decorative, its mood lighthearted and witty. Louis XV furniture, richly decorated with organic forms, is a typical product. Leading exponents of the Rococo sryle included the French painters Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), and the German architect Johann Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753). Rococo gave way to Neo-classicism. is mostly built upon his jewel like cabinetGLOSSARYA small, private room where works of art, valuables and curiosities were kept and contemplated at leisure; over time the term was used for the collections themselves. Renaissance cabinets played an important role in the development of museums and art galleries. pictures, painted with minute attention to detail on small copper panels, and mostly depicting mythological scenes and Fete Champetres. He also completed a small number of religious pictures.