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Jan Ji Heinsch or Heintsch was a CzechGerman Baroque style painter. Heinsch primarily painted religiousthemed works as well as portraits of monastic superiors especially for various Catholic religious orders such as the Jesuits, Knights of the Cross with the Red Star or Augustinians.

Heinsch was born in 1647 in Kodzko , the capital of the County of Kladsko , to a Protestant family. He lived there until at least 1678, when he moved to Prague. It is not certain where he gained a painting education in his early years. In Prague, where he joined local painters guilds while converted to Catholicism, he learned the art of one of the best Czech Baroque painter, Karel krta to a lesser extent was also influenced by the Italian Renaissance, particularly by Paolo Veronese. As for themes of paintings, Heinsch was inspired by thoughts of polymaths and divines Bohuslav Balbn or Jan Frantiek Beckovsk.

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