Ignaz Alberti

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ignatz Alberti

Ignaz Alberti (born April 11, 1760 in Vienna ; † August 31, 1794 ibid) was an Austrian draftsman, engraver and printer.

Life

Ignaz Alberti received his training from Jacob Matthias Schmutzer . He founded a publishing house in Vienna, which in 1787 had around 20 engravers working on cartographic and botanical works. Like Mozart, Alberti was a member of the Masonic lodge Zur Crowned Hope and designed the frontispiece of his Magic Flute with many Masonic symbols.

After Alberti's death, his wife Anna Newather (1761–1802) took over the publishing house. She issued a New Testament in 1796 , which was put on the index by the Catholic Church .

  • Johann Alexander Brambilla , engraving after Christian Vinazer (1783)

  • High
    cowslip Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

  • Frontispiece of the first edition The Magic Flute (1791)

  • The Old Testament (1793)

literature

  • Johanna Senigl: Ignaz Alberti, privil. Printer, bookseller and acad. Engraver. Including bibliography of his life's work . In: Mitteilungen der Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum 49 (2001), no. 3–4, Salzburg, November 2001, pp. 102–125
  • Anton Mayer: Vienna's book printer history 1482-1882 . Vol. 2, Vienna 1887, pp. 131 ff.

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Alberti  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Alberti, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian draftsman, engraver and printer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1794
Place of death Vienna