Claes Janszoon Visscher

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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore , here in a print from 1652

Claes Janszoon Visscher (* 1587 ; † 1652 in Amsterdam ) was the founder of a Dutch art dealer, engraver and publisher dynasty. His name also appears on maps in Latinized forms, such as Nicolaus Ioann (id) es Piscator or similar.

Live and act

His extensive work consists of around 120 mainly topographical drawings, around 200 prints, including landscape and city views, border decorations on maps by other publishers as well as maps and atlases designed and published by himself . The publishing house "In de Visscher" founded by Visscher had been based in Amsterdam's Kalverstraat since 1611.

Visscher was born as the son of the ship's carpenter Jan Claes Visscher. His artistic teachers are not known, but based on style comparisons it is believed that he was a student of David Vinckboons . Visscher worked as a draftsman and engraver until the beginning of the 1620s. His cartographic work during this time was largely limited to the engraving of border borders for the maps by Willem Janszoon Blaeu , Harman Allertszoon van Warmenhuysen and Pieter van den Keere .

After he took over the printing plates from van den Keere's atlas " Germania inferior " in 1623 , Visscher worked as an independent cartographer and publisher. In the cartographic area, his focus was on maps for the Netherlands, Germany and sieges. Some of his maps were included in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas .

After his death in 1652, his son Nicolaes Visscher I took over the publishing house, which continued into the first half of the 18th century .

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts: approx. 1450–1700. Volume 38: Claes Jansz Visscher to Claes Claesz Visscher II (Nicolaes Visscher II). Amsterdam [u. a.] 1991, ISBN 90-72658-16-7 , pp. 7-252 (catalog raisonné).
  • Tony Campbell: Claes Jansz. Visscher: a hundred maps described. London 1968.

Web links

Commons : Claes Jansz. Visscher (II)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ↑ Entry " Visscher, Claes Jansz. <The Younger>" at: d-nb.info
  2. ^ " Palatinatus Rheni Nova, et Accurata Descriptio. Nicolaus Ioannis Piscator, 1630" at: alte-landkarten.de
personal data
SURNAME Visscher, Claes Janszoon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piscator, Nicolaus Joannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cartographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1587
DATE OF DEATH 1652
Place of death Amsterdam