Jan Lauwryn Krafft

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Jan Lauwryn Krafft

Jan Lauwryn Krafft (also: German: Johann Ludwig , Johannes Livinus French: Jean-Laurent , Jan Laurens ; born November 10, 1694 in Brussels ; buried January 1, 1768) was a copperplate engraver, etcher, shape cutter, writer, publisher and singer .

Life

His father was Jooris Krafft, who immigrated from Germany . He was brought up in Germany and stayed for a while in Holland . He married Jeanne-Marie Borremaecker in 1716 and Marie Aubersin in 1719. His son François-Joseph Krafft (1721–1795) was an organist, his nephew François Krafft (1733–1800?) Harpsichordist.

Create

His earliest dated woodcut , the Polish rider King Johan Sobieski of Poland outside Vienna, dates from 1717 . He was also the author of several "not merciless" fables .

Works

  • Histoire générale de l'auguste maison d'Autriche
  • Picture of members of the House of Austria ; 1744, Brussels
  • Tresor De Fables: Choisies Des Plus Excellens Mythologistes ... ; 1734 ( Volume 2, online )

after Rubens

  • Job on the dung heap
  • Jesus with Nicodemus
  • The Danea
  • The Venus

after van Dyck

  • St. Martin

after Teniers

  • The landlord and his wife in conversation with the farmer
  • The village goatherd ; 1762
  • The shipwreck
  • View in Flanders
  • Landscape where the skipper leads man and woman to a farmhouse

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ch. Piot: Krafft (Jean Laurent et non Jean-Louis) . In: Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique . Volume 10, Thiry, Bruxelles 1888-1889.
  2. ^ Nagler: Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexicon , Volume 7, p. 151; as Johann Ludwig Krafft (1705–1770)
  3. ↑ FJ Otto: The total literature of the Netherlands ; P. 267

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personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Jan Lauwryn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krafft, Johann Ludwig; Krafft, Johannes Livinus; Krafft, Jean-Laurent; Krafft, Jan Laurens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engravers, erasers, form cutters, writers, publishers and singers
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH buried January 1, 1768