Johann Georg Breuer
Johann Georg Breuer (* unknown; † approx. 1695 in Altona ) was a German mint master and medalist .
Life
Johann Georg Breuer, of German descent, can be traced back to the Swedish mint Avesta from 1649 , where he appears as a die cutter under the name Göran Isersnider . He worked as a medalist and modeller for the Swedish royal family and created portrait medals, models for marble busts and reliefs. From 1666 to 1669 he worked for the Mint in Stockholm . He had to leave Sweden in 1669 and then probably stayed in Denmark.
As early as 1667, Breuer created silver medals for the fraternal harmony of the Brunswick dukes Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich on the occasion of the inheritance settlement concluded on May 30th. Other medals for the Guelph ducal house followed. With the conquest of the city of Braunschweig by the two dukes in 1671, the city mint was converted into a princely one. Breuer was mint master here from 1675 to 1684, where he minted coins in the name of Duke Rudolf August and in 1675/76 also municipal coins. He participated in the earnings of the mint, which was leased to the Wagner brothers from Hamburg, and therefore initially had to pay a treasure trove of 500 thalers. In 1679, Breuer bought a plot of land in nearby Rühme above the Oker, which is still called Münzberg today , on which he built a private mint and illegally minted coins. In 1684 he was dismissed as a ducal mint master because of “neglect of duty and false fictitious coin misappropriation” and was fined 10,000 thalers. He had minted a fictional guilder of a "Prince of Japonia" and exported it abroad, including to Russia. In addition, Breuer had minted several thousand coins from Count Heinrich IV of Reuss zu Greiz without permission. He had Breuer arrested in 1684, but was able to come to an agreement with him. Since Breuer could not pay the required sum of 1000 thalers, he had to pledge his property in Rühme to Count Reuss. Breuer subsequently worked as a mint master and medalist for various German and foreign princes and probably died in Altona in 1695.
Breuer is one of the most important Dutch-North German baroque medalists. He was for Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony , Duke Johann Friedrich von Calenberg , Duke Christian Albrecht von Holstein-Gottorp , Duke Friedrich Casimir von Kurland , Landgrave Ludwig VI. von Hessen-Darmstadt and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg . He also worked as mint master for Duke August von Sachsen-Weissenfels , administrator of the Magdeburg Archbishopric , in the Wolmirstedt mint near Magdeburg .
literature
- Wilhelm Jesse : The last coinage of the city of Braunschweig . In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch , Volume 33, 1952, pp. 102–117.
- Wilhelm Jesse: The coins of the city of Braunschweig from 1499 to 1680 (=: Braunschweiger Werkstücke Volume 27). Braunschweig 1962, p. 97ff. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Leschhorn : Breuer, Johann Georg . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 110 .
Web links
- Johan Georg (Hans Jürgen) Breuer . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Volume 6, 1926, p. 228.
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Moderhack : Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte , Braunschweig, 1997, p. 125
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breuer, Johann Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isersnider, Göran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mint master and medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1695 |
| Place of death | Altona |