Johann Adam Seupel
Johann Adam Seupel (baptized August 26, 1662 in Strasbourg ; † February 4, 1717 there ) was a Strasbourg citizen , painter and engraver .
life and work
Johann Adam Seupel trained himself to be a painter and engraver. He painted portraits in pastel and engraved them in copper. The papers met with great applause as Seupel was a talented man. In 1690 Carolus Desiderius Royer , whom he had engraved in copper, dedicated the following epigram to the artist (he calls him Scupel with the anagram Sculpe):
" Ad Dominum Johann Adam Scupel, Chalcographum: Scupel Anagram Sculpe. Artem sculpendi nullo didicisse magistro: Adame, haud in te laus mediocris erit. Scilicet hanc natura dedit; vix noun adeptus Scupelii: Musae sculpere jamque jubent. "
Seupel signed his engravings with JAS or JA Seupel.
literature
- Johann Rudolf Füssli : General Artist Lexicon , Zurich 1779, p. 607
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. (22 vols.), Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich . Vol. 16 Schoute – Sole, Munich 1846, p. 309
- Hermann Hieber: Johann Adam Seupel, a German portrait engraver in the Baroque era . Dissertation, Strasbourg 1907. Complete view
- German engravings, etchings and woodcuts. 1400–1700 / FWH Hollstein. Vol. 59: Johann Adam Seupel to Söckler / comp. by Gero Seelig. Ed. by Giulia Bartrum. - Rotterdam 2001.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seupel, Johann Adam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seipel; Scupel (misspelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Strasbourg painter and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1662 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1717 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |