Johann Andreas Pfeffel

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Johann Andreas Pfeffel (* 1674 in Bischoffingen , † 1748 in Augsburg ) was a German engraver and art publisher.

life and work

Johann Andreas Pfeffel showed early talent for the art of copperplate engraving. He received his training at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . He dealt with both the chisel and with the scraping or black art and presented in Vienna several large portraits and allegorical leaves her. Responding to the taste of his time, he developed a diverse activity in all kinds of companies, which he expanded over time. In Vienna he was given the title of kk court copper engraver, but did not stay in that city, but instead settled in Augsburg in 1711 according to a plan that had been drawn up earlier. There he founded an art shop with Christian Engelbrecht .

This art dealership gained an important reputation and soon flourished, as the entrepreneurs also set up a publishing house for art papers in addition to the range of individual art items. Numerous works, including several on a very large scale, emerged from this workshop. Portraits of contemporary personalities, political and ceremonial events, theater scenes, views of famous places, major theses at church consecrations, theological and philosophical disputations , collections of images of saints for the use of the people and schools, art books, ornaments and the like have been published. The Bible Physica Sacra by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer , which was famous at the time and was richly accompanied by copper, was also published by this publisher in 1731–1735.

Pfeffel thus gives testimony to the taste of its time through the multitude of these articles. Even if the technical work of copperplate engraving is to be called a bit broad, in that he also had other artists such as Johann Evangelist Holzer work on them, there is a historical interest in his work, on the other hand there is also a certain wealth of ideas in them, especially in the great theatrical decorations after Bibiena , to be noticed. Besides the portraits of Emperor Charles VII , Emperor Franz I , Archduke Joseph, King George II of England, Maximilian III. Joseph , Elector of Bavaria, Prince Eugene of Savoy , King Friedrich I of Prussia, among others, the following works are interesting:

  • 14 sheets of large and small views of Prague together with the celebrations of the entry and coronation of Maria Theresa as Queen of Bohemia in 1743
  • 4 Sheet of the Great Redouten Hall of the Vienna Hofburg at the wedding of Archduchess Maria Anna to Bibiena
  • 9 sheets of opera decorations at the wedding of Crown Prince Friedrich August of Saxony and Poland, also to Bibiena
  • 30 sheets of theater decorations, mostly intended for the Dresden opera house, after Bibiena
  • 24 sheet large views of the interior and exterior of Florence and its most important buildings, with many of the festivities shown give a strange picture of the local folklore, according to Fr. Zucchi
  • 5 sheet large catafalks of Emperor Leopold I.
  • a large bridge in Catalonia and the Montserrat

Pfeffel also published the work Prospecte and Demolitions of Some Buildings in Vienna ... by the Franconian artist Johann Adam Delsenbach , who stayed in Vienna several times between 1710 and 1721. When Delsenbach moved back to Nuremberg in 1721 , Pfeffel commissioned Salomon Kleiner to go to Vienna to continue the series of vedas that had been started mainly based on drawings by the Austrian architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach . Pfeffel had achieved a certain fame through the series of vedutas he published and which were very much appreciated at the time. He not only published the work with the Viennese vedute, but also took part in it as an engraver; however, most of the engravings were made by Johann August Corvinus .

Pfeffel's son of the same name Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1715–1768) also became a copper engraver.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Birth and death dates according to Johann Andreas Pfeffel the Elder in the Vienna History Wiki .
  2. ↑ a b c Frenzel: Pfeffel (Johann Andreas) , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 20th part (1845), p. 299.
  3. ^ Pfeffel, Johann Andreas in the Augsburgwiki
personal data
SURNAME Pfeffel, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver and art publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischoffingen
DATE OF DEATH 1748
Place of death augsburg