Georg Haas (copper engraver)

Bærums Verk, copper engraving by Georg Haas, colorized

Georg Haas (* July 1756 [baptized July 23, 1756] in Copenhagen ; † May 10, 1817 ibid) was a German-Danish engraver .

Life

Georg Haas learned the profession of copperplate engraver from his father Jonas Haas and from Johann Martin Preissler . From 1769 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art , which awarded him its silver medal in 1771 and 1773 and its gold medal in 1776 for the engraving of the Prophet Elisa with the Sunamite woman . In 1777 he received a scholarship from the academy to study with Nicolas de Launay in Paris. In Paris he was appointed a member of the local art academy in 1782. After returning to Copenhagen, he became a court engraver there. Among other things, he engraved pictures for the Danish painter Christian August Lorentzen from his trip to Norway in 1792. In 1810 he became professor at the Copenhagen Art Academy. He was buried in the assistance cemetery in Copenhagen.

His brothers Meno and Peter Haas also became famous engravers.

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler: Haas, Johann Jakob Georg . In: etc or messages from the life and works of the painter, sculptor, architect, engraver: New general artist Lexicon . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837, p. 479 ( books.google.de ).
FJ Meier: Haas, Johan Jacob Georg . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 6 : Gerson-H. Hansen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1892, p. 436-437 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Otto Andrup : Haas, Georg (Johann Jakob Georg) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 389 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Georg Haas - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Andrup : Haas, Georg (Johann Jakob Georg) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 389 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Haas, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haas, Johann Jakob Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized July 23, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1817
Place of death	Copenhagen

[1] Otto Andrup : Haas, Georg (Johann Jakob Georg) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 389 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).