Johann Andreas Thelott

Johann Andreas Thelott (born April 10, 1655 in Augsburg , † June 25, 1734 there ) was a German goldsmith , draftsman and engraver .

Life

Thelott, from a Huguenot family who emigrated from Dijon in the 16th century and who have been in Augsburg with the goldsmiths Christoph Andreas and Cornelis Daniel Thelott since 1585 , was born as the son of the goldsmith Israel Thelott and was initially trained by him. In 1687 the son took a trip to Rome . After his return to Augsburg he received his master craftsman license after making a lid.

Thelott worked temporarily with Joseph Friedrich Leopold .

Thelott is the father of the engravers Jakob Gottlieb Thelott and Johann Gottfried Thelott , grandfather of the engravers Ernst Carl Thelott and Johann Paul Thelott and great-grandfather of the portrait painters Karl Franz Joseph Thelott and Ernst Joseph Thelott .

Signatures and special features

• As is customary in the guild , Thelott stamped silver goblets and jugs with a figure from his coat of arms, an anchor .
• He gave Thelott's figurative driving works, for example calendars and clock plates , a personal character; he supplemented them with freely soldered figures and graded the backgrounds - unlike the usual at the time - with stronger or lesser hallmarks . In this way, the drifting work was geared more towards its superficial effect than its massiveness, correspondingly cheaper and - next to the anchor with the name Thelotts as the artist's signature.

Famous works

Thelott made numerous goldsmiths, drawings and etchings .

Silver and Gold

• In addition to works from Thelott's hand in Dresden and Munich, works were also owned by Prince Fugger in Augsburg and Baron Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main.
• " According to the inscription, a piece in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna was made in Rome in 1687".
• Marc Rosenberg listed 40 certified works in his work Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen .
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Thelott's silver drifting works, see above
  • a silver-plated watch by master watchmaker Franz Xaver Gegenreiner , as well
  • an elaborately decorated mirror as a collaboration between Thelott and the silver carpenter Johann Valentin Gevers .
• The Maximilian Museum keeps Thelott's masterpiece, a lidded goblet from 1689

Prints

• The Berlin State Library has digitized Thelott's works
• Works on Paper holds the Bavarian Library Network ready.
• The university library center of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia holds digitized prints by the artist.
• The Central Directory of Digitized Prints is also available online with Thelott's work.

Honors

Thelottstrasse in Augsburg is named after the Thelott family in the Thelottviertel of the same name .

literature

• Marc Rosenberg :  Thelot, Johann Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 678 f.
• Johann Andreas Thelot. In: Marc Rosenberg: The goldsmith's mark. 3rd edition, Volume 1, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1922, pp. 165–172 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Paul von Stetten: Art, trade and handicraft history of the imperial city of Augsburg. Volume 1, Stage, Augsburg 1779, pp. 476-477 ( digital-sammlungen.de ).
• Thelott, Johann Andreas. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 18: Surugue, PL – Torre, G. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1848, pp. 302–303 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Thelott, Johann Andreas . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 398 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Thelott, Johann Andreas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 591-593 .
• Heidi Praël-Himmer: The Augsburg goldsmith Johann Andreas Thelot. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-422-00689-3 (short version of the dissertation of the same name at the Philosophical Faculty I of the University of Munich ).
• Lorenz Seelig: silver and gold. Augsburg goldsmith's art for the courts of Europe. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich from February 23 to May 29, 1994, ed. by Reinhold Baumstark and Helmut Seling, Hirmer, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6290-X .

Web links

Commons : Johann Andreas Thelot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ulrich Kirstein: Thelott In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg
• Johann Andreas Thelott in the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
• Johann Andres Thelott on europeana .eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Marc Rosenberg: Thelot, Johann Andreas. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie… Volume 37, pp. 678–679.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ulrich Kirstein: Thelott In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg .
3. ^ ^{A b} Clock Franz Xavier Gegenreiner metmuseum.org.
4. ↑ Joseph Mančal: Leopold In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg.
5. ↑ Mirror Johann Valentin Gevers metmuseum.org.