Jakob Michael Pressel

Jakob Michael Pressel (* 1742 ; † 1805 ) was a German medalist , seal cutter and copper engraver who worked in Heilbronn .

family

Pressel's father Johann Michael Pressel (1701–1773) was a coppersmith , seal cutter and engraver in Heilbronn.

Works

View of the city of Heilbronn created by Pressel in a rococo frame on a clientele (certificate of employment) for journeymen (1777)

Copper engravings

His work includes a view of the city of Heilbronn on a customer's copperplate engraving form , a work certificate for journeymen. A copy of this form, completed by the turner trade for the journeyman Michael Adam Oberhauser from Ansbach on May 29, 1777 and signed by the Heilbronn master turner Georg Conrad Weber, is exhibited in the Heilbronn House of City History . Other engravings are known.

Medals

Silver medals (so-called Viehmarkttaler or horse market medal ), which were awarded as prizes at the cattle and horse market that has existed in Heilbronn since 1770. Two silver medals are exhibited in the Heilbronn House of City History.
Medal from 1782, which refers to the visit to Württemberg as part of the European tour of the Russian heir to the throne Paul and his wife Maria Fyodorovna . The obverse shows a crowned couple in an open antique carriage pulled to the left by three horses, the reverse an honor gate adorned with the crowned coats of arms of Russia and Württemberg against the backdrop of a city. With such a gate of honor in the border town of Enzberg , Duke Carl Eugen received the princely couple in Württemberg.

literature

Johann Georg Meusel : Miscellanous artistic contents . 15th issue. Keyser, Erfurt 1783, p. 189 ( books.google.de ).
Pressel, Jakob Michael . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 381 .

Remarks

↑ Max Schefold: Old city views of Heilbronn . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Issue 3), p. 9; Alfred Schliz : Guide through the collections of the Heilbronn Historical Museum. New edition. Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1917, pp. 105, 120.
↑ Norbert Michels (Ed.): Views from Hohenlohe. Graphics from four centuries. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-3304-4 , p. 90.
↑ Diethard H. Klein (Ed.): Heilbronn - a reading book. The city of Heilbronn then and now in legends and stories, memories and reports, letters and poems. Husum Verlag, Husum 1988, ISBN 3-88042-405-5 , p. 141; Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (= publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 95 . ; Baroque in Baden-Württemberg. From the end of the Thirty Years War to the French Revolution. Exhibition of the state of Baden-Württemberg under the patronage of Prime Minister Lothar Späth. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Bruchsal Palace from June 27 to October 25, 1981. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 1981, ISBN 3-923132-00-X , p. 537.
↑ Annemarie Röder (Red.): Maria Feodorowna as mediator between Württemberg and Russia. House of Home of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-00-014770-5 , p. 10; Christian Binder: Wuerttemberg coin and medal customer. Revised by Julius Ebner. Volume II. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1912-1915, p. 58.

personal data
SURNAME	Pressel, Jakob Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medalist, seal cutter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	1742
DATE OF DEATH	1805

[1] Max Schefold: Old city views of Heilbronn . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Issue 3), p. 9; Alfred Schliz : Guide through the collections of the Heilbronn Historical Museum. New edition. Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1917, pp. 105, 120.

[2] Norbert Michels (Ed.): Views from Hohenlohe. Graphics from four centuries. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-3304-4 , p. 90.

[3] Diethard H. Klein (Ed.): Heilbronn - a reading book. The city of Heilbronn then and now in legends and stories, memories and reports, letters and poems. Husum Verlag, Husum 1988, ISBN 3-88042-405-5 , p. 141; Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (= publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 95 . ; Baroque in Baden-Württemberg. From the end of the Thirty Years War to the French Revolution. Exhibition of the state of Baden-Württemberg under the patronage of Prime Minister Lothar Späth. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Bruchsal Palace from June 27 to October 25, 1981. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 1981, ISBN 3-923132-00-X , p. 537.

[4] Annemarie Röder (Red.): Maria Feodorowna as mediator between Württemberg and Russia. House of Home of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-00-014770-5 , p. 10; Christian Binder: Wuerttemberg coin and medal customer. Revised by Julius Ebner. Volume II. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1912-1915, p. 58.