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Seekatz, Johann Conrad [Konrad]
(b Grünstadt, 4 Sep 1719; d Darmstadt, 25 Aug 1768). German painter. He studied with his brother, Johann Ludwig Seekatz (b 1711), and with Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (1709–61) in Mannheim (1748–51); he became court painter to Landgraf Ludwig VIII von Hesse-Darmstadt in Darmstadt in 1753. In nearby Frankfurt he belonged to the circle of late Rococo painters associated with Goethe’s father Johann von Goethe—Justus Juncker (1703–67), Christian Georg Schütz the elder (1718–91), Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–69). He shared with them a preference for genre scenes and nature studies painted in an eclectic transitional style. The painting Landgraf Ludwig VIII Hunting Pheasants (c. 1750; Darmstadt, Hess. Landesmus.), an eerie night scene replete with intense hunters, nervous dogs, flickering lights and shadows in the foliage illuminated by torch- and moonlight, anticipates 19th-century Realism.
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