Anton Juergens (painter)
Anton Jurgens (full name Anton Daniel Jürgens * 11. February 1823 in Hannover ; † 22. August 1883 ) was a German painter and decorator and yard - arms painters.
Life
1 Gutegroschen , Michel number 1;
Engraving of the printing plates: J. Friedrich Fickenscher ; Print: Culemann
Engraving of the printing plates: J. Friedrich Fickenscher ; Print: Culemann
Anton Jürgens lived in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover , where he designed the first postage stamps for domestic mail on behalf of his sovereign King Ernst August I. Only from his number 1 listed in the Michel catalog , which was first issued on November 30, 1850 at 1 Gutegroschen (Ggr.) In the colors black on gray-blue, three hand-drawn designs are known.
Anton Jürgens lived in 1870 on the Bel Etage of Theaterstrasse 4b in Hanover. At that time, the teenager and later painter Carl Wiederhold completed a four-year apprenticeship with Anton Jürgens.
See also
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Schnoor: The unfinished Hanover stamp , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Vol. 1 (1930/1931), pp. 140-144
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Manfred Koenig: The painter Carl Wiederhold. Notes on biography and work . in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 59, Hannover 2005, pp. 63–82, here: p. 64
- ↑ oV : Hanover / Briefmarken / Briefmarken on the arge-hannover.de page of the Hanover and Braunschweig Working Group in the Hanover Stamp Club of 1886 eV in the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten eV [ undated ], last accessed on 23 March 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Juergens, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jürgens, Anton Daniel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Royal Hanoverian decorative painter, court coat of arms painter and postage stamp artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1883 |
| Place of death | Hanover |