Johann Burger (copper engraver)
Johann Burger (born May 31, 1829 in Burg AG ; † May 2, 1912 in Munich ) was a Swiss engraver .
Life
Burger received his first lessons from the landscape painter and engraver Jakob Suter in Zofingen and then from 1850 to 1856 learned cardboard engraving in particular from the academy in Munich under Julius Thaeter .
From there he visited Dresden and Florence and stayed in Rome for two years . Returning to Germany in 1859 , he also devoted himself to the line style in Munich. One of his first works was the stoning of Stephanus after Schraudolph's fresco in the Speyer Cathedral ; it was followed in 1856 by the poets of Italy after Vasari (Hopesche collection in London). In Rome in 1858 under the supervision of Cornelius' Lady Macbeth , he engraved two sheets after pictures by Hess in the Bonifacius Basilica in Munich and the robbery of Europa after Genelli, all in cardboard style. In line style he stabbed the farmer and the broker after Vautier, the rest on the flight to Egypt after van Dyck, the hunter's Latin after Grützner (1875), the lady with the parrot to Mieris (Pinakothek in Munich) and the Violanta to Palma Vecchio ( Belvedere in Vienna). His main work is the engraving after Raphael's Madonna della Sedia (1882).
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| SURNAME | Burger, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burg AG |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1912 |
| Place of death | Munich |