Jeremias Wolff

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Jeremias Wolff at the age of 54, engraving by Johann Daniel Herz
Copper engraving of Wörth Castle on the Danube around 1700 by Jeremias Wolff

Jeremias Wolff (* 1663 in Augsburg ; † 1724 there ) was an Augsburg engraver and publisher .

Life

From a small copper engraving shop , the trained watchmaker built up the largest art publisher in the first half of the 18th century and sold popular copper engravings. Most of the prints were illustrated thesis sheets that were sold across Europe.

The publishing house employed the best engravers of its time. On most of the engravings, however, only the name of the publisher Wolff was recorded. At Wolff's instigation, the Imperial City Art Academy was founded in Augsburg in 1710 .

The publishing house was continued by his student and son-in-law Johann Balthasar Probst (1673–1750), engraver and publisher, and later by his sons under the name of Jeremias Wolff Erben .

Works (excerpt)

Together with the Nuremberg engraver Paul Decker , Wolff published a series of copper engravings showing the wartime acts of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Italy , southern Germany and the Spanish Netherlands during the War of the Spanish Succession . It is exhibited in the Vienna Army History Museum .

literature

  • Werner Schwarz: From “simple” watchmaker to art publisher. Jeremias Wolff and his successors. In: Helmut Gier (Hrsg.): Augsburg book printing and publishing. From the beginning to the present. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997. ISBN 3-447-03624-9 . Pp. 587-618.
  • Michael Ritter: The maps of Jeremias Wolff and Johann Friedrich Probst. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 35 (2007) pp. 21–30 full text

Web links

Commons : Jeremias Wolff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Baer: Augsburger Stadtlexikon. History, society, culture, law, economy. Verlag Perlach, Augsburg 1985, ISBN 3-922769-16-0 , p. 416, and Werner Faulstich: Die bürgerliche Mediengesellschaft, 1700-1830. (= The history of the media. Volume 4), Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-20790-5 , p. 168.
  2. ↑ Betka mush-von Wicht: Franz Sigrist, 1727-1803, a painter of the 18th century. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1977, ISBN 3-87437-122-0 , p. 35.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel, Emmeram Ritter (Ed.): Music, theater, dance from the 16th century to the 19th century in their relations to society. Exhibition Stift Göttweig, Lower Austria, May 28–23. Oct. 1966. Exhibition of the graphical cabinet of the monastery. Volume 7, Göttweig 1966, p. 65.
  4. ↑ Werner Meyer, Josef Jeiter: Augsburg . Weidlich Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967, p. 23.
  5. ^ Kurt Jolig: Dutch influences in German cartography, especially in the 18th century. Geological pamphlets , Vol. 1-19, Leipzig 1903, p. 50.
  6. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790 . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Jeremias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1724
Place of death augsburg