Gerhard Altzenbach

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Peccati MORS grant , printed by Gerhard Altzenbach

Gerhard Altzenbach (* before 1590 , † after 1672 ) was a Cologne publisher , art dealer and bookseller .

Life

Gerhard Altzenbach was the owner of an important copper engraving in Cologne; he called himself a saint printer . He lived on Maximinstrasse. Many draftsmen and engravers worked for his publishing house. He had a sales booth in the vicinity of the Minorite monastery. The earliest known sheet by Altzenbach dates from 1612 and shows famous relics from German cathedral cities such as Cologne, Aachen and Trier. On May 28, 1612, the council gave Gerhard Altzenbach “for the special treatise, which he had issued in public pressure on cut copper pieces of the handsome, highly famous relics, as in this city of ours, also available in Aachen, Trier and elsewhere , the privilege that no one should be allowed to reprint the same treatise and copper pieces in our city without Altzenbach's prior knowledge in a period of ten years ”.

In 1613 he published a pictorial representation of an execution for "unheard of rogue and murder pieces" that had been committed in Linz, Ergel, Unkel, Honneff, Königswinter, Bonn and elsewhere. From 1645 onwards he had a "new calendar" overlaid on top of this praiseworthy city of Colln, the same on both sides of the nearest landscapes, in front of the Holy Patronage portraits together with the town councilors, the city, the mayor, the rent master and the guild coat of arms " appear.

Works

Death as a crossbowman

His publisher (Gerhard Altzenbach excudit) includes the following well-known works:

  • a view of the city of Cologne after an engraving by Wenceslaus Holar , without the fortifications by Deutz
  • another made by Abraham Aubry after a Toussin drawing
  • a view of the town hall tower and the portal (J. Toussin delineavit, Abraham Aubry fecit, Gerhardus Altzenbach excudit)
  • the Corpus Christi procession with the floor plan of the city of Cologne, after a drawing by Schott, engraved by Löffler jun.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Altzenbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leonard Ennen :  Altzenbach, Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 375.
personal data
SURNAME Altzenbach, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altzenbach, Gerhardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cologne publisher, art and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH before 1590
DATE OF DEATH after 1672