Johann Friedrich Probst (copperplate engraver)

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Johann Friedrich Probst (* 1721 in Augsburg ; † 1781 ibid) was a German engraver , publisher and editor .

Life

Johann Friedrich Probst was the son of the engraver and publisher Johann Balthasar Probst and the grandson of Jeremias Wolff . Probst created numerous of his own works, which he also sold himself. Also cityscapes and several maps of his grandfather were among them.

Well-known works (selection)

Hanover from the west; Engraving created around 1785 after Probst of the cityscape originally created by Werner around 1730
  • Probst created based on templates by the engraver Friedrich Bernhard Werner
    • a city view of Nuremberg , published by Probst and Jeremias Wolffs Erben;
    • a cityscape of Hanover originally engraved by Werner around 1730 . The view engraved by Probst after Werner was then again used around 1785 by at least one other engraver as a template for a relatively narrow re-engraving in which, on the other hand, all heights were reproduced exaggerated.

literature

  • CG Müller, 1791, p. 76
  • Michael Ritter in: Cartographia Helvetica , issue 25, 2002, p. 4

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Probst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Probst, Johann Friedrich , in: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century , Vol. 3: Biographische Artikel PF - Z , Munich: Saur, 2007, p. 1177; online through google books
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : View of Hanover from the west. Engraving after FB Werner. Around 1785 , in the reverse. (Ed.): Hannover Archive , sheet S 15
personal data
SURNAME Probst, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1781
Place of death augsburg