Johann Michael Seligmann
Black and wise Indian starfish . Seligmann's reprint of an etching from George Edwards' A Natural History of Birds . Imprint ( lat. ): “G. Eduards ad viv. Delin. JMSeligmann ejcaidit. Joh. Sebast.Leitner sculps. "
Johann Michael Seligmann (* 1720 ; † 1762 ) was a German illustrator and art dealer in Nuremberg . He received his training as a draftsman and engraver at the Nuremberg Painting Academy . In 1744 he was called to Rome and from there to Saint Petersburg , but later returned to Nuremberg. He was best known for his illustrations of scientific works, including the work A Natural History of Birds by George Edwards and Mark Catesby , which was translated as a collection of various foreign and rare birds , drawings of numerous minerals and the illustrations for the Opera Botanica by Conrad Gessner (1754). Many of the plates he made bear the initials JMS .
literature
- Paul Johannes Rée: Seligmann, Johann Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 679 f.
Web links
Commons : Johann Michael Seligmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- The Mineralogic Records Museum of Arts (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Johannes Rée: Seligmann, Johann Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 679 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seligmann, Johann Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator and art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1720 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1762 |