Johann Georg Schmidt (copperplate engraver)

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Johann Georg Schmidt (born August 23, 1694 in Augsburg , † March 15, 1767 in Braunschweig ) was a German engraver .

life and work

Schmidt came from Augsburg and had initially worked in Dresden before he came to Braunschweig in the copper engraving workshop of Johann Georg Beck , also from Augsburg .

Wedding of Crown Prince Friedrich, copper engraving, 1733

After Beck died in 1722, Schmidt married his widow Anna Elisabeth, b. Füllekrug, took over his workshop and the title of court copper engraver. Schmidt trained Beck's son Anton August in his workshop . Like Beck, Schmidt mainly produced portraits of the Braunschweig clergy and people from the ducal house, although the quality of the work lagged behind that of his predecessor and his son.

In 1733 Schmidt recorded the wedding of Crown Prince Friedrich (and later King of Prussia ) with Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern at Salzdahlum Castle in a copper engraving. The image shows King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and Duke Ferdinand Albrecht of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in the foreground .

After his death in 1767, his stepson Anton August Beck took over his father's business again and continued to run it successfully until his death in 1787.

Selection of works

  • Cavalier House Braunschweig, 1748

  • Braunschweig Riding School, 1749

Works

Corpse - procession from the stone gate of Hannover out to Old St. Nicholas cemetery in " Steintorfeldstrasse ";
IG Schmidt in Braunschweig based on a drawing by EE Braun ; from Christian Ulrich Grupen's statement Origines Et Antiqvitates , published in 1740 ...

1740 appeared in the book Origines Et Antiqvitates Hanoverenses ... written by the Hanoverian mayor Christian Ulrich Grupen ... several engravings by JG Schmidt, Br (unsviga) after EE Braun , which were digitized by the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel . There are

  • Facies Antiqua Honoverae versus Valvam lapideam (Stein-Thor.) , A view of the area in front of the Steintor of Hanover with the Nikolai cemetery (p. 00070a)
  • FACIES ANTIQUA NOVAE CIVITATIS HONOVERANAE (page 00256a), a reconstructed plan of the area around what will later become Calenberger Neustadt
  • HONOVERA ANTIQUA , a reconstructed plan of the old town of Hanover (page 00278a)

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th century , Braunschweig 2006
  • Gerd Spies (Ed.): Braunschweig - The image of the city in 900 years. History and Views , Volume 2, Braunschweig 1985

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries . Braunschweig 2006, p. 624.
  2. ↑ Gerhild HM Komander: The change of the "Sehepuncktes". The history of Brandenburg-Prussia in graphics from 1648 to 1810 . LIT Verlag, Münster and Hamburg 1995, p. 387, no.123.
  3. ↑ http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=drucke/dep-8-12-1&distype=thumbs
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1767
Place of death Braunschweig