Franz Xaver Joseph Späth

Magnus in Ortu

Franz Xaver Joseph Späth (also Spätt ) († 1735 in Munich ) was a German court engraver who worked in Munich .

Life

Späth studied with Gérard Edelinck in Paris from 1704 to 1709. Elector Max Emanuel sent him again to Paris in 1716/17. After his return in 1720/21 he worked as a court copper engraver in Munich. His salary was 150 guilders . Späth married Catharina Faistenberger, the daughter of the sculptor Andreas Faistenberger, in 1711 . His daughter Therese Elisabeth married the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub in 1737 .

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Various engravings by Späth have been proven, for example in the Deutsches Theatermuseum (fireworks on Lake Starnberg, 1722) and an emblem with a view of the Schleißheim garden parterre in JC Khuen, Magnus in ortu… (1727) in the Munich State Library. In the Munich City Museum there is a copper engraving by Späth with the portrait of Maximilian Karl Albrecht Fürst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort .

literature

Thieme-Becker Vol. XXXI, 322
Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 16. Sole, GG - Surugue L., Munich 1847, p. 111 .
Felix Joseph Lipowsky : Baierisches Künstler-Lexikon, second volume. From P. to Z. Munich 1810. pp. 113f., 268f. ( Scans at the MDZ ).
Georg Troescher: Art and artist walks in Central Europe, 800–1800, Volume 1: German art and artists in French and Dutch art, Baden-Baden 1953, p. 159.

Web links

Späth stiches at the Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)

Individual evidence

^ Catalog Bavaria - Art and Culture (1972), cat. 947
↑ Elector Max Emanuel - Bavaria and Europe around 1700 (1976) Vol. I p. 247, and Vol. 2 No. 641
^ Karl-Heinz Zuber: Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, Maximilian Karl Fürst zu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 98 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Späth, Franz Xaver Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spätt, Franz Xaver Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
DATE OF DEATH	1735
Place of death	Munich

[1] Catalog Bavaria - Art and Culture (1972), cat. 947

[2] Elector Max Emanuel - Bavaria and Europe around 1700 (1976) Vol. I p. 247, and Vol. 2 No. 641

[3] Karl-Heinz Zuber: Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, Maximilian Karl Fürst zu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 98 f. ( Digitized version ).