Johann Gottfried Krügner the Elder

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St. Thomas Church and older St. Thomas School in 1723 , copper engraving, Leipzig City History Museum

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

Commons : Johann Gottfried Krügner the Elder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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