Georg Daniel Heumann

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Heumann: Interior of the Göttingen Paulinerkirche

Georg Daniel Heumann (born September 23, 1691 in Nuremberg ; † June 27, 1759 ibid) was a German draftsman and engraver in Nuremberg and Göttingen .

Life

From 1731 to 1753 Heumann was one of the most important engravers for Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Physica sacra . He worked a lot after the works of Salomon Kleiner . From June 1, 1735 to 1740, the later copper engraver Johann Adam Schweickart apprenticed to him in Nuremberg .

From November 30, 1740 until 1753, he was the first “Göttingen academic” copper engraver at the University of Göttingen, which opened in 1737, and worked as an electoral Hanoverian and royal English court engraver in Göttingen. He was known all over Europe for his work, which was published in Germany, England and France. He stabbed u. a. Portraits based on models of the electoral Hanoverian and royal English court painter Gottfried Boy .

Back in Nuremberg he took 16-year-old Christian von Mechel in as an apprentice from 1753 to the end of 1754 .

Heumann was a member of the Nuremberg Painting Academy . He worked for several South German publishers, a. a. for Albrecht von Haller .

Works (selection)

  • The Gottingische Ausruff from 1744 , reissued and commented by Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, with a portrait by GD Heumann, Verlag O. Schwartz, 1987, ISBN 3-509-01450-2 .

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SURNAME Heumann, Georg Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1759
Place of death Nuremberg