Johann Benjamin Brühl

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Johann Benjamin Brühl (* 1691 ; † May 12, 1763 ) was a German engraver and sheet music engraver .

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Brühl was the son of the form cutter Nikolaus Brühl and applied as a copper engraver, coming from Weißenfels , to be a citizen of Leipzig in 1717. He worked and lived for a long time with his father, the form cutter Nikolaus Brühl. From 1732 he was resident in the Small Princely College, where he stayed even after his father's death.

Brühl mainly engraved portraits from paintings by famous contemporaries such as the philosopher Christian Wolff , the physician Christoph von Hellwig , the legal scholar Johann Samuel Stryk , the numismatist Christian Schlegel or the geographer Johann Gottfried Gregorii . Book illustrations and views were also part of his repertoire.

As an artist he was demanding and took quite high prices. Johann Sebastian Bach could therefore not afford his services. Brühl's work, however, fell short of his claim and indicates “a modest talent whose ability did not go beyond the craftsmanship”. Brühl died at the age of 72 as an almsman .

  • Selection of works

  • Portrait of Johann Christian Adami

  • Portrait of Martin Lodinger

  • Portrait Adam Siber

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Commons : Johann Benjamin Brühl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Kurzwelly : Brühl, Nikolaus . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 105 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Otto Klein: Weissenfels . In: Wolfgang Adam, Siegrid Westphal (Hrsg.): Handbook of cultural centers of the early modern period ... Volume 3, Berlin 2012, p. 2150.
  3. ^ Carsten Berndt: Melissantes: a Thuringian polyhistor and his job descriptions in the 18th century; Life and work of Johann Gottfried Gregorii (1685–1770) as a contribution to the history of geography, cartography, genealogy, psychology, pedagogy and professional studies in Germany; [a Thuringian geographer and polymath (1685–1770)]. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2015, 3rd edition, ISBN 978-3-86777-166-5 , pp. 57, 204/205, 243.
  4. ^ Steven Zohn: Music for a Mixed Taste. In: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works. Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 342.
  5. ^ Albrecht Kurzwelly: Brühl, Johann Benjamin . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 105 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Gustav Wustmann: The Leipzig copper engraving in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Leipzig 1907, p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Brühl, Johann Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German copper and sheet music engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1691
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1763