Attributed to Johann Christoph Storer

Collection Villata, Turin.

The Battle of Lechfield took place between 10-12 August 955, where, the Kingdom of Germany, led by King Otto the Great, defeated the Hungarian army during a series of military engagements. After the German victory, King Otto I was proclaimed emperor of the fatherland by the army and was subsequently crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962.

Johann Christoph Storer was a German painter, etcher and engraver. He began his artistic training with his father, Bartholomäus Storer and later worked with Caspar Strauss in Augsburg. In around 1640 he travelled to Milan where he was under the tutelage of Ercole Procaccini the Younger (1596-1676). Storer was involved in the decorative projects for the funeral ceremony of Queen Isabella of Spain in the Cathedral of Milan. By 1657, the artist had returned to his native city of Constance, where he was predominantly focused on ecclesiastical commissions.

This vivid and dynamic depiction of the battle scene, executed on vellum, corresponds, in the same direction, with the central image in the print by Bartholomäus Kilian (1630-1696) after Johann Christoph Storer.¹

1.    S. Appuhn-Radkte, Visuelle Medien Im Dienst der Gesellschaft Jesu, Johann Christoph Storer (1620-1671) als maler der Katholischen Reform, Regensburg 2000, no. D.11, reproduced.