Johann Martin Will
Johann Martin Will (born October 24, 1727 in Kempten (Allgäu) , † May 1, 1806 in Augsburg ) was a German engraver and publisher .
Life
Johann Martin Will was initially a Mahlmüller journeyman . He settled in Augsburg, where he got married. In 1755, Johann Martin Will founded a copper engraving company , the main focus of his publishing activities were pictures on cultural history (e.g. traditional costumes and children's games), commercial graphics (e.g. cut-out sheets, religious devotional pictures ), portrait engravings , caricatures and historical representations. There were also a few cartographic representations .
His eldest daughter was Anna Regina Will (* 1759), who married the miniature painter Johann Walch in January 1786 , who then worked for his father-in-law's publishing house. As a result, the publisher increasingly turned to map production. In 1789 the material of the map publishers Matthäus Seutter and Tobias Conrad Lotter could be acquired from the inheritance of Gustav Conrad Lotter (1746–1776) , almost 25,000 individual map sheets and 208 copper plates.
After Will's death, who was buried in Augsburg on May 4, 1806, Anna Regina's husband Johann Walch inherited the Willschen Verlag , which was continued until 1817 with the addition of "heirs" and which later became the Joh. Walch printing company .
Works (selection)
Nine of the works by Johann Martin Will have been published in the Augsburg State and City Library .
The university library of the University of Frankfurt am Main owns a single-sheet print published in Augsburg in 1757 and signed by him under the title Wunderbarliche Caution u. Omnipotence of God: which the Count's Promnitz town of Sorau in der Laußnitz experienced on the 18th month of July… .
literature
- Albert Haemmerle : A portrait drawing of Johann Sebastian Lorenz Walch . In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg 2, 1936/37, pp. 177–180.
- Will, Johann Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 7 .
- Hans-Jörg Künast: Documentation: Augsburg book printer and publisher . In: Helmut Gier, Johannes Janota (Hrsg.): Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagwesen. From the beginning to the present (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03624-9 , p. 1293.
- Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica 26, 2002, pp. 23-29 ( digitized version ).
- 250 years of the Joh. Walch printing company in Augsburg, which is over 2000 years old (1755–2005). Walch, Augsburg 2005.
Web links
- Will, Johann Martin at europeana .eu
Remarks
- ↑ 1936 owned by Regina Walch, Augsburg Albert Haemmerle: The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg 2, 1936/37, p. 178; 2002 owned by Joh. Walch GmbH & Co., Augsburg, Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica 26, 2002, p. 23 Fig. 1.
- ↑ In contrast to this, the German National Library names 1754 as the year of foundation, see this information
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Künast: Joh. Walch GmbH & Co. , in: Stadtlexikon Augsburg , online
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Künast: Documentation: Augsburg book printer and publisher . In: Helmut Gier, Johannes Janota (Hrsg.): Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagwesen. From the beginning to the present (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03624-9 , p. 1293.
- ^ Digitized from the collection of single-sheet prints Gustav Freytag .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Will, Johann Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempten (Allgäu) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1806 |
| Place of death | augsburg |