Johann Christian Leopold

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Johann Christian Leopold (also: Johannes or Iohann ... ; * 1699 in Augsburg ; † August 3, 1755 ibid) was a German engraver and engraver as well as art and music publisher .

Life

Johann Christian was the son of the engraver and publisher Joseph Friedrich Leopold . In the period between 1710 and 1750 the publishing family published countless graphics and cityscapes. Even more than his father, Johann Christian Leopold had made a name for himself as one of the most important engravers in the first half of the 18th century for predominantly secular works by various composers .

Leopold worked with the Rococo painter , Gottfried Bernhard Göz , and with Johann Jacob Lotter .

Johann Christian Leopold had a son of the same name (* 1729 in Augsburg, † April 24, 1779 ibid), who, however, was unable to follow up on his father's success in publishing.

Works

Portrait of Duke Karl Friedrich in the Hermitage , dated before 1739

Cityscapes

  • Numerous sepia-colored views of the city of Augsburg are labeled “Aug. Vind. ”(Augustae Vindelicorum), the Roman name of the city. They are provided with an outline of the city's history in Latin / German.
  • Several colored copper engravings were created based on drawings by Friedrich Bernhard Werner :

Portraits

Note engravings

Father and son published scores of mostly secular works, among others by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer , Georg Muffat , Alessandro Marcello , Philippo Martino , Joseph Nicolaus Torner , Francesco Antonio Bonportis and Johann Daniel Berlin . Johann Gottfried Walther , the first German music lexicographer , "is represented with almost all of his works for keyboard instruments that have appeared in print ".

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme Felix Becker (Ed.): General Lexicon of Visual Artists , 1907–1950, Vol. 23, pp. 93f.
  • A. Haemmerle: Protestant death register on the history of arts and crafts in Augsburg , 1928, p. 28
  • Augsburger Barock, 1968, p. 416, 430ff., 451
  • F. Krautwurst, W. Zorn: Bibliography of the literature on the music history of the city of Augsburg, 1989
  • Augsburg Book Printing and Publishing , 1997, pp. 887f., 1272, 1286

Web links

Commons : Johann Christian Leopold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. standard data entry (GND 123,381,843 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 17, 2016.
  2. a b c d Josef Mančal: Leopold ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page of the Stadtlexikon Augsburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtlexikon-augsburg.de
  3. ^ A b Karl-Ludwig Lauer Medienberatung (commercial page): City views 1750
  4. a b page 158 (untitled) in the Stadtlexikon Augsburg
  5. City view of Berlin around 1730
  6. black-and-white scan at Commons; there is also a colored section of the sheet
  7. Information from Wikimedia Commons