Conrad Buno

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Conrad Buno (also: Conradt and Konrad Baun as well as variants with Baum and Buna ) (* 1613 in Hessisch-Frankenberg ; † May 22, 1671 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German court - engraver , publisher , draftsman and bookseller . Buno is at least unconsciously known to many Lower Saxony residents, as Merian reproduced numerous old cityscapes as large-format copper engravings based on his drawings .

Life

Hanover , seen from Lindener Berg ;
signed Conr. Buno delineavit , Casp. Merian fec .
“Instead of Einbeck” ; Engraving by Merian after a drawing by Buno
"Salt of the Heroes" , around 1654

Konrad Buno's youth fell into the period of the Thirty Years' War , in the confusion of which many documents and entire cities were lost and countless people, homeless or homeless, roamed the country. Exact life data of people from this time are therefore often missing or have been partially reconstructed afterwards , often based on the respective people's own biographical information:

Based on the information documented in secondary literature that Konrad Buno was a brother of the rector Johannes Buno in Lüneburg , he was probably the son of Ludwig Buno , a member of the Frankenberg Council, and Elisabeth , née Helreich (daughter of the pastor Ignatius Helferich [Helfricus ] in Münden ). Buno's paternal grandfather, also named Conrad Buno , was a princely Hessian councilor. It is assumed that the later engraver “was born in 1616 at the latest”.

On September 25, 1649 Konrad Buno and Agnes Anna Wichmann married (died November 26, 1691; "daughter of the princely commissary and mayor" in Wolfenbüttel , Henning Wichmann ).

Career

Duke August in the Duke August Library
Engraving by Buno, around 1650
"Africa" ; after Philip Clüver
Castle and Ampt Calenberg
after Buno, engraved by Merian, around 1654

For the pastor of the Katharinenkirche in Braunschweig , Joachim Jordan , who died on April 24, 1639 , there was a brass plate signed “Conradt Baun” . Therefore, the first appearance of Konrad Buno in Braunschweig was reconstructed around the year 1640 at the latest. As court engraver of Duke August von Braunschweig , Buno boasted in April 1649 that he had served the Duke "now for eleven years". Between 1641 and 1643 Buno made an engraving depicting his master's entry into Wolfenbüttel; During this period Buno was assigned a room of his own at Wolfenbüttel Castle and created several images of the prince. Apparently none of the possible oil paintings have survived.

In 1649, Buno received his prince's permission to open his own business premises for publishing booksellers and open bookshops. Although it was common for engravers of his time to expand the field of work and income, the Buno business was the first of its kind in Wolfenbüttel. In the same year he married Agnes Anna Wichmann , the mayor's daughter.

The book and publishing business got off to a slow start. The reason was Buno's production of drawings for the Topographia Germaniae, begun by Matthäus Merian and continued by the sons : For the images of the Topographia and the actual description of the Vornembsten towns, castles and other places in which Hertzogthümer [n] Braunschweig and Lüneburg , and those to belong [s] Graf managed Mr. managed and landing traveled Buno from 1650 for three years across the country - the peace of Westphalia it made now relatively safe to do so - to the templates for several local and city views of the (then) two countries to draw that at Merian were then engraved in copper in Frankfurt .

Buno was only able to get his plan for a publishing house and open bookstore in Wolfenbüttel really going from 1655 onwards. For this purpose, he booked an exhibition opportunity at the Frankfurt trade fair for the first time in the same year for the works he was offering. However, since "traveling dealers" from other booksellers had disputed his business there, he negotiated the privilege for the 1665 fair that other dealers "only allowed books to sell at the time of the fairs or with special permission".

Probably in the same year Buno became a member of the council of Wolfenbüttel in 1665. Before his death, he was promoted to chamberlain on the city council. Buno's widow outlived her husband by a good twenty years, she died on November 26, 1691.

Works (selection)

  • around 1640: brass plate signed “Conradt Baun” with the portrait of Pastor Joachim Jordan
  • The funeral procession for the dukes Georg and Wilhelm of Braunschweig and Lüneburg in 1643
  • before 1649: Portraits by and for Duke August von Braunschweig
  • before 1650: Drawings for Martin Gosky's Arbustum et Arboretum Augustaeum, Aeternitati ac domui Augustae Selenianae sacrum , J. and H. Stern, Wolfenbüttel 1650, NA 1693 ( diglib.hab.de ).
  • from 1650: Drawings of numerous city views from (today's) Lower Saxony, which were used as a template for the Merian's copper engravings in the Topographia and the Actual Description of the Vornembsten towns, castles and other places in which Hertzogthümer [n] Braunschweig and Lüneburg, and those belonging to [ n] Grafschafften rulers and lands served and are some of the oldest preserved cityscapes.

Artist signature

Copper engravings with the initials CB are known in Goski's Divi Augusti Ducis Brunsvico - Luneburg. Vita et Fama, Francofurti , 1693, fol.

literature

  • Woltereck: Burial book of the churches BMV to Wolfenbuettel. Helmstedt 1747 (owned by the former ducal state main archive in Wolfenbüttel).
  • Buno, Konrad (Latinized from Baun) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 226 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Buno, Conrad. In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 15: Bucki – Campagnari. Saur, Munich et al. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 148.
  • Paul Zimmermann :  Buno, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 368 f.
  • Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath (ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900 / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. Fourth, improved edition 1977, Heinrich Feesche Verlag Hannover, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , "Vorsatz", p. 136/141.
  • Ralf Busch : The funeral procession for the dukes Georg and Wilhelm of Braunschweig and Lüneburg 1643 (= publications of the Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg, Helms-Museum. No. 65). Helms-Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1992, ISBN 3-87166-022-1 .
  • Franz Rudolf Zankl : Hanover 1654 - View of Hanover from the west. Copper engraving by Caspar Merian, drawn by Conrad Buno, 1654. In ders. (Ed.): Hanover Archive . Sheet EH 53 .
  • Paul Raabe : The Wolfenbüttel copper engraver and draftsman Conrad Buno (1613–1671) (=  Wolfenbüttel Baroque Year 2006 / Kulturstadt Wolfenbüttel eV in connection with the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel . Exhibition booklet 4). Wolfenbüttel 2006.

Web links

Commons : Conrad Buno  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Paul Zimmermann:  Buno, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 368 f.
  2. ↑ a b Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath: Alt-Hannover 1500–1900…. "Intent", pp. 136/141.
  3. ↑ Buno, Conrad. In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 15, 1997, p. 148.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Buno (Johann) . In: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists ... Volume 1 . Carl Schünemann, Bremen 1823, p. 318–321, here p. 320 ( books.google.de ): "The publisher, his brother Conrad Buno, was a bookseller and printer in Wolfenbüttel"
  5. ^ Johann Ludwig Levin Gebhardi : Dissertatio secularis de re literaria coenobii S. Michaelis in urbe Luneburga a prima orgine ad annum 1686 . Lüneburg 1755, p. 126 ( books.google.de - entry on the ancestry of Johannes Buno).
  6. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler (ed.): The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools, ... Volume 1 : A-CF . Georg Franz, Munich 1858, p. 974 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Buno, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baun, Konrad; Buno, Konrad; Buna, Konrad; Baum, Konrad; Baun, Conrad; Buna, Conrad; Baum, Conrad; Baun, Conradt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court engraver of Duke August von Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Hessian-Frankenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1671
Place of death Wolfenbüttel