Eberhard Kieser
Eberhard Kieser (born December 2, 1583 in Kastellaun , † November 1631 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engraver and publisher .
biography
Kieser was the son of a pastor. He learned the goldsmith's trade . In the early summer of 1609 he received civil rights in Frankfurt am Main through the marriage of Anna Christina Hoffmann, a painter's daughter, worked as a goldsmith in Sachsenhausen and began to draw and engrave. From 1612 he illustrated and published books and produced representative prints in his publishing workshop with several engravers as assistants.
Works
The most important work is a dance of death after Holbein, consisting of 60 small-format etchings from 1617. p. 85
Kieser also became known through the Thesaurus philopoliticus (German title: Political treasure chest of good gentlemen and steadfast friend ), a collection of copperplate engravings with city views , which Kieser and Daniel Meisner (1585-1625), who came from Bohemia, produced and successfully published. These works appeared in 16 books with 831 city images until 1631. Each picture has a motto in Latin and German that came from Meisner. It is not certain that Kieser, in addition to his publishing activities, also produced printing plates for the thesaurus himself. P. 85
From 1617/18 Sebastian Furck and afterwards Georg Keller , Matthäus Merian and Johann Eckard Löffler worked for Kieser. In 1631 the printing plates came to the Nuremberg publisher Paul Fürst after his death . In 1638/42 he published around 800 of the engravings in the work Sciographia Cosmica in 8 volumes; In 1678 and 1700 further editions followed by the widow and son-in-law of Fürst.
In addition to the thesaurus philopoliticus, the type of engravings / etchings suggests Georg Keller as an artist p. 128 :
- Coronation diary of Maximilian II from 1612
- Johann Jacob Wallhausen's Ritterkunst , Frankfurt 1616
- Johann Jacob Wallhausen's Romantic Art of War , Frankfurt 1616
- Austrian laurel wreath, 1625
Furthermore, Kieser published a series of 78 sheets of emperors, electors and noble gentlemen on horseback as well as portraits of Fettmilch, Schopp, Gerngros and Ebel (see Fettmilch Uprising ) in the manner of Sebastian Furck. P. 128
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Daniel Meisner and Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus philopoliticus or political treasure chest ; Facsimile reprint of the Frankfurt a. M. 1625–1626 and 1627–1631 with an introduction and a complete register of townscapes by Klaus Eymann. Unterschneidheim 1972 and 2nd edition, 1974.
- Hans Georg Wehrens: Freiburg in the "Thesaurus philopoliticus" by Daniel Meisner and Eberhard Kieser : in: Freiburg im Breisgau 1504–1803, woodcuts and copper engravings; Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2004, p. 99 ff. ISBN 3-451-20633-1 .
- Stephan Prinz: Legal emblems; Legal motifs in the emblemata of the 16th to 18th centuries , LIT Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10133-4 online excerpt .
- Philipp Friedrich Gwinner: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main: from the thirteenth century to the opening of the Städel'schen Kunstinstitut , Verlag Joseph Baer, Frankfurt am Main 1862, ISBN 1-148-40794-4 , pp. 127–128 online full text .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b see literature Stephan Prinz: Juristische Embleme
- ↑ a b see literature Philipp Friedrich Gwinner: Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kieser, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1583 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kastellaun |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1631 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |