Johann Peter Pichler

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Mezzotint Cupid as an archer after Correggio, 1794

Johann Peter Pichler , also Johann Baptist Pichler (* around May 13, 1765 in Bozen , † March 18, 1807 in Vienna ), was an Austrian mezzotint artist and portrait engraver.

Life

Johann Peter Pichler trained at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the kk drawing and engraving academy founded in 1768 under Jacob Matthias Schmutzer (1733–1811) and Johann Jacobé (1733–1797) and then stayed on behalf of Prince Leopold III . for the execution of several plates for the newly established Chalkographic Society in Dessau for a long time in Dresden . He worked there as a professor of mezzotint . After returning to Vienna, Pichler married a daughter of his master Jacobé. Johann Peter Pichler died March 18, 1807 in Vienna.

Works

  • Cleopatra after Heinrich Friedrich Füger

  • Venus and Cupid

  • King Stanislaus August Poniatowski

  • Karl von Schwarzenberg after Friedrich Oelenhainz

  • Portrait of a nobleman (probably Emmanuel Marie Louis, Marquis de Noailles (1743–1822), French ambassador to Vienna, 1783–92)

  • Children of Peter Paul Rubens

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Peter Pichler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Biographical lexicon of the Austrian Empire
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . Vol. 11, pp. 276-279 (online)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.artfact.com/artist/jacobe-johann-jhew7qew6t
personal data
SURNAME Pichler, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichler, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mezzotint artist and portrait engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around May 13, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1807
Place of death Vienna