Johann Andreas Ziegler

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Silhouette by Bernhard Albrecht Moll , 1783.

Johann Andreas Ziegler (born July 11, 1749 in Meiningen , Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , † March 18, 1802 in Vienna ) was a painter ( vedute draftsman ) and copperplate engraver .

A part of the Augarten , hand-colored copper engraving, 1783.
The Fireworks Square in the Prater , colored copper engraving, around 1783.

Ziegler was the son of master shoemaker Johann Wolfgang Ziegler and came from a modest background. Franz Josef Graf Thun (1734–1800), whom he initially served as a page, enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1769 due to Thun's connections to the Viennese Freemasons . He traveled a lot through Austria and mainly painted landscapes. The vedute series " Collection de 50 vues de la ville de Vienne ", which he created under the direction of Carl Schütz together with Laurenz Janscha from 1779 to 1798 and which was published by Artaria , made him known. The engravings of Ziegler found a large distribution. He committed suicide in 1802. The circumstances of his death in the Vienna River were initially unclear and could only be clarified by the local researcher Gustav Gugitz .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Object of the month May 2016: The Fireworks Square in the Prater , website of the Vienna Library in the City Hall
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Johann Andreas Ziegler in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  3. ↑ Josef Holzapfel, The Vienna in old views , p. 17 , in: Die Wien: Vom Kaiserbrünndl bis zur Donau , ISBN 978-3-95400-4-003 , Sutton Verlag , 2014
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1802
Place of death Vienna