Johann Georg Lange (copper engraver)

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Johann Georg Lange (* before 1673; † around 1689) was a German draftsman and engraver who was in regular correspondence with the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Life

The later years of the engraver Johann Georg Lange are closely linked to the work of the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz :

After the death of Johann Friedrich , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , the abilities of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who had been active in the royal seat of Hanover since 1677 and until then as a councilor and librarian under the government's successor Ernst August, were now “entirely at the service of the legal and historical Legitimacy of the political claims of the Welfenhaus “. On the desired path of the new sovereign to obtain the ninth electoral dignity , a representative and pompous state funeral should be staged in the court church for the deceased monarch. For this purpose, Leibniz developed the emblematic image program both for the sacred building and in particular for the “ Castrum doloris ”. In order to capture the state funeral in the picture, Leibniz brought the engraver Johann Georg Lange from Hamburg to Hanover, who according to other sources is said to have been active in Hanover from around 1673.

Jacob Franz Kotzebue (1621–1685), royal Swedish personal physician;
Copper engraving by Lange after " Henricus Meibomius "

In fact, it wasn't until 1685 that Johann Georg Lange created the copper engraving showing the funeral procession for Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, who was buried according to the Catholic rite in 1680.

Even during Leibniz's various research trips, the copperplate engraver Lange's letters brought the polymath regularly news from the royal seat and her court .

In the times of Lange, well-known personalities were often disfigured by smallpox scars on their faces. While contemporary painters usually did not take such scars into the picture, the copper engraver Lange is one of two well-known Hanoverian copper engravers who at least cautiously hinted at such pockmarks, as Lange, for example, in his bust of the doctor Jacob Franz Kotzebue .

Until his death around 1689, Johann Georg Lange was the only copper engraver in the royal seat, which at the time was more thrifty in the field of fine arts. It was not until Nicolaus Seeländer , who was employed as a library engraver in 1716 and who died in 1744, that the House of Hanover again had its own engraver.

Other works

The following are also known:

and display information about the image
One of 60 engravings by Lange from the corpse procession for Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , who was buried on April 21, 1680 in the princely crypt in the Leineschloss in Hanover ; from: IIusta Funebria Serenissimo Principi Joanni Friderico Brunsvicensium Et Luneburge ... , Rinteln: Gottfried Kaspar Wächter, 1685; Provenance : Otto Grote zu Schauen , Helmstedt University and Herzog August Library ; auctioned at Christie's around 2010

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Low German Contributions to Art History , Volume 20, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981, ISSN 0078-0537, pp. 136f., 147; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Catalog of graphic portraits in the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , Series A: The portrait collection of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , Vol. 45: Register , Part 4: Artists (painters, draftsmen, engravers) , Munich: KG Saur Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-31805-4 and ISBN 978-3-598-31805-4 , p. 218; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b c Paul Ritter (arr.): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete writings and letters , series 1: General political and historical correspondence , ed. from the Leibniz archive of the Gottfried Wilhelm Library, Lower Saxony State Library Hanover, vol. 4: 1684 - 1687 , reviewed reprint of the first edition Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, Leipzig, Koehler and Amelang, 1950; Hildesheim: Olms, 1990, ISBN 978-3-05-001033-5 and ISBN 3-05-001033-9 , p. Xxxvi; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b Jill Bepler: Views of a state funeral. Funeral works and diaries as a source of ceremonial practice , in Jörg Jochen Berns , Thomas Rahn (Ed.): Ceremonial as courtly aesthetics in the late Middle Ages and early modern times (= early modern times , vol. 25), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995, ISBN 978-3- 484-36525-4 and ISBN 3-484-36525-0 , pp. 183-197; here especially p. 188
  5. ↑ Andreas Fahl: Burials and burials until 1850 , in: Don't weep, we'll see each other again. Mourning culture in Hanover from 1600 to today (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover , Volume 24), Hanover: HMH, 2005, ISBN 978-3-910073-26-5 and ISBN 3-910073-26-3 , p. 21; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : Costumes in Graphic Portraits - Reality or Masquerade? , in Peter Berghaus (Hrsg.): Graphic portraits in books from the 15th to 19th centuries (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen , Vol. 63) (= part of the library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV in Frankfurt am Main), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995, ISBN 978-3-447-03730-3 and ISBN 3-447-03730-X , pp. 149-158; here: p. 152; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Copper title as digitized version of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
  8. ↑ Christoph Harer: "... quei concenti con lamenti". Italian musicians at the court of Johann Friedrich in Hanover , in Heinz Duchhardt (Ed.), Zaur Gasimov (Red.): Yearbook for European History , published at the Institute for European History, Volume 11 (2010), R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59784-4 , ISSN 1616-6485, pp. 55ff .; here: pp. 55, 76; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ Inventory number VM 27751 , compare Andreas Fahl, Alheidis von Rohr : Printed funeral sermons , consolation poems and private obituaries , in this: curriculum vitae - festivals. Birth, marriage, death. (= Writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , issue 6), booklet accompanying the exhibition, 1994, ISBN 978-3-910073-07-4 and ISBN 3-910073-07-7 , pp. 107–110; here: p. 107
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Johannes Georg; Lange, Johannes Georgius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, draftsman and portraitist
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1689
Place of death uncertain: Hanover