Johann Martin Preissler

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Jean Martin Preisler, engraving by JG Will (1743)

Johann Martin Preissler , also Preißler , Preisler (born March 14, 1715 in Nuremberg , † November 17, 1794 in Lyngby ) was a German engraver .

Life

Johann Martin Preissler came from a Nuremberg family of painters and engravers who had immigrated from Bohemia . His father was the painter Johann Daniel Preissler , who trained him together with his older brother Georg Martin Preissler in Nuremberg. From 1739 to 1744 he worked for Laurent Cars (1699–1771) in Paris , also at the gallery of Versailles Palace . From 1744 Johann Martin Preissler worked as court engraver at the royal court of Copenhagen . In Copenhagen he became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1750 and held the title of Royal Danish Judicial Council. He was buried in the Christian church in Copenhagen, then still called Frederiks Tyske Kirke .

Johann Martin married Anna Sophia Schuckmann (1720–1800) in 1748, daughter of a Rostock professor of medicine. His son Johann Georg was also an engraver.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johan Martin Preisler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon, or, news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Schwarzenberg & Schumann ( google.de [accessed on August 28, 2018]).