Johann Baptist Haas (copperplate engraver)

Johann Baptist Haas (born March 31, 1732 in Staufen im Breisgau ; † November 3, 1791 ibid) was a German engraver .

Life

View of the Karlsruhe Palace from the north. GLAK Karlsruhe, Johann Baptist Haas after Peter Perez Burdett

Haas worked primarily for the monastery printing press of the St. Blasien monastery under Abbot Martin Gerbert . He probably did early work alongside Peter Mayer for the Pinacotheca principium Austriae by Marquard Herrgott and Rustenus Heer . He then played a major part in the illustration of the Taphographia principum Austriae, accompanying the army to Nöggenschwiel. After the two factories were destroyed, they were restored under Gerbert. He also made the Black Forest map for the Historia nigrae Silvae . He also engraved portraits, such as those of Heinrich Bornemann , Johannes Hartung , Erdmann Neumeister and Glarean .

Copper engravings (selection)

• City gate of honor for Marie Antoinette in Freiburg im Breisgau (1770)
• Siamese twins who were born on May 19th, 1780 in Naples and who were exhibited in Germany

literature

• Haas, Johann Baptist . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 390 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Martin Engel: Haas, Johann Baptist . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 23.

Web links

• Portraits in the digital portrait index

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Stamm: The Thousand Year St. Blasien 200 year cathedral anniversary. Volume 2. 1983, p. 159.
2. ↑ Look into the country. Annual journal of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland. 26, 1899, p. 47 ( illustration ).
3. ↑ Entry in the object catalog of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum .