Georg Pfründt

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Georg Pfründt (1603–1663) ( Nicolaes van Helt Stockade , around 1639)

Georg Pfründt (* 1603 in Flachslanden ; † 1663 in Durlach ) was a German medalist , wax boss and copper engraver as well as a sculptor , engineer and master builder.

Life

Pfründt was the son of a carpenter from Flachslanden, a village near Winsheim in Franconia. He was trained by a nobleman from Crailsheim to Nuremberg to the art expert Hanns Haffner and the boss Georg Vest the Elder. J. sent. He learned sculpture from Leonhard Kern and probably designed several works for his patron. He learned architecture and engineering from Carl Friderich Reichen (or Carl Friedrich Reichen). During the Thirty Years' War he served under Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar and was captured by Sweden in the Battle of Nördlingen . After his release he served Duke Bernhard again and took part in the siege of Breisach . He fell seriously ill in Strasbourg and was near death for a time. After his recovery, he married.

Pfründt lived for some time in Lyon, where his daughter Anna Maria was born in 1642 . Sandart writes differently that she was born in Paris . He came to Paris in 1643 and became a student of the French medalist Jean Warin (also Varin or Varini). Here he worked as a wax boss. When he returned to Germany in 1645, he worked in many royal houses. He brought the special kind of portrait design with him from France. As a counterfetter, he created many portraits that were modeled flat but very finely in the oval background. In the representation of the portrait, the essentials were emphasized. The backs were also modeled flat. The medals are not embossed, but cast. Since his first wife had died, he married again. He also had several daughters with his second wife.

This early Baroque medalist is a person who stood out well above his contemporaries due to his style, technique and quality of design. He designed pennies of grace for Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Friedrich IV. Of Baden-Durlach . He taught his daughter Anna Maria the art of creating medals so well that she became successful herself.

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  1. ↑ a b c Joachim von Sandrart: Georg Pfründt . In: L'Academia Todesca della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura: Or Teutsche Academie der Edel Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste ... 3rd book of the 2nd part. Jacob von Sandart, Matthaeus Merian, Nuremberg / Frankfurt 1675, p. 344 ( ta.sandrart.net ).
  2. ↑ Warin, Jean . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 161 .
  3. ^ L. Forrer: Pfründt, Georg . In: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . tape 4 . Spink & Son Ltd, London 1909, p. 477-479 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Pfründt, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medalist, wax dossier and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Flax landing
DATE OF DEATH 1663
Place of death Durlach