Johann Christoph Handke

Johann Christoph Handke (Czech: Jan Kryštof Handke; February 18, 1694 in Rýmařov – December 31, 1774 in Olomouc) was a baroque painter from Moravia. He was the brother-in-law of the painter Joseph Ignatz Sadler. He made frescos as well as oil paintings.

Works

Fresco of Approving of bylaw of Society of Jesus depicting Ignatius of Loyola receiving papal bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae from Pope Paul III. Fresco was painted in Church of Our Lady Of the Snow in Olomouc after 1743.
Illusionistic ceiling painting in Kaple Božího Těla Chapel in Olomouc. Statues were made by Filip Sattler.
Oil painting of Albrecht von Sternberg in Augustinian monastery in Šternberk