Johann August Corvinus

Marienhospital near Vienna

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Johann August Corvinus (* 1683 in Leipzig , † 1738 in Augsburg ) was an engraver and etcher in Augsburg.

He was the tutor of Salomon Kleiner . Works by Corvinus (including vedutas based on drawings by Salomon Kleiner) were mainly edited by the Augsburg art publisher Jeremias Wolff, e. B. decorative siege scenes from the War of the Spanish Succession in the one with Paul Decker the Elder. Ä. published work Representation belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico (around 1715), or in the Magnifica Pulchritudine et validissimis Munitionibus per orbem celeberrima Ducalis et Episcopalis Residentia Wurzburgum seu Herbipolis in Franconia, published by Johann Andreas Pfeffel in Augsburg in 1740 .

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Individual evidence

^ Hanswernfried Muth: Pictorial and cartographic representations of the city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 294–307 and 901, here: p. 296 f. and 304-306.

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SURNAME	Corvinus, Johann August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Engraver in Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH	1683
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	1738
Place of death	augsburg

[1] Hanswernfried Muth: Pictorial and cartographic representations of the city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 294–307 and 901, here: p. 296 f. and 304-306.