Johann Gottfried Krügner the Elder
Johann Gottfried Krügner the Elder (* around 1684 in Dresden ; † February 25, 1769 in Leipzig ) was a Saxon engraver .
Life
He was born in Dresden in 1684 as the son of a musician. He learned copper engraving in his hometown and later in Leipzig. His place of activity was the latter city, where he worked on copper portraits (including by Dominique Bouhours , Roland Adrian , Christian Ludwig Ermisch , Louis-Antoine de Noailles and Johannes Otto von Münsterberg ) and book titles as commissioned works. In 1726 he married Rosine Dorothee, daughter of the Leipzig publisher Johann Theodor Boetius . The bookstore sold Johann Sebastian Bach's piano exercises on commission. Krügner's son Johann Gottfried Krügner the Younger (1714–1782) was also a copperplate engraver.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Gottfried Krügner the Elder in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Michels: Anhalt in old views. Landscape, architecture, worlds. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-350-2 , p. 105.
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Krügner, Johann Gottfried the Elder |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon engraver |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1684 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1769 |
Place of death | Leipzig |