Bartholomäus Seuter
Bartholomäus Seuter (* 1678 , † 1754 ; also Seutter, Seuterus, Saiter, Seiter, Seyder ) was a goldworker, enameller, porcelain and faience painter and dealer, silk dyer, copper engraver and publisher from Augsburg .
His brother, the Augsburg goldsmith and fire painter Abraham Seuter (1699–1747) specialized in the production of gold Chinese . Bartholomäus also decorated the ceramics with paintings.
He had further developed the color printing process of the Dutchman Johannes Teyler , was the first in Germany to deal with color printing with various plates and supplied the plates for Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Iconographia . He worked with the copper engravers Johann Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Ridinger to produce the panels .
literature
- Johann Rudolf Füssli, Hans Heinrich Füssli: General artist lexicon . Part 2, Section 8, Orell, Füssli & Co., Zurich 1814, pp. 1616–1617 ( online )
Web links
- Sign of his workshop
- Images printed by him in Weinmann's Phytanthoza iconographia
Individual evidence
- ↑ A popular motif for the decoration of (especially Meissen) porcelain with gold plating
- ↑ Art Lexicon
- ^ Gordon Campbell: The Grove encyclopedia of decorative arts . Oxford University Press US, 2006, ISBN 0195189485 , p. 468 in the article Hausmaler , online
- ↑ deutsches-museum.de
- ^ Hyacinth Holland : Seuter, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 68.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seuter, Bartholomew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gold workers, enamellers, porcelain and faience painters and dealers, silk dyers, engravers and publishers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1678 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1754 |