Johann Pleikard Bitthäuser

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Johann Pleikard Bitthäuser (born April 4 or 7, 1774 in Bütthard ; † July 23 or 24, 1859 ) was a German engraver .

Life

Johann Pleikard Bitthäuser was trained by Johann Gotthard Müller in Stuttgart and later became professor of engraving in Würzburg . Many of his engravings were published in Johann Friedrich Frauenholz 'Verlag. He made a copy of Morghen's engraving based on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper , a Susanna in the bath based on a model by Domenichino , a Madonna based on Parmigianino , a conversation between Emperor Augustus and Cleopatra based on Anton Raphael Mengs and numerous portraits, including one by the sculptor Philipp Jakob Scheffauer and a portrait of Cranach, which was intended for Heller's Cranach monograph and was also printed in Jäck's Pantheon of Bamberg's writers and artists .

A drawing by Bitthauser, which reproduces the portrait of Johann Melchior Söllner, burned on March 16, 1945 and located in the Mainfränkisches Museum , is in this museum. It dates from 1834. The monument of Scheffauer's husband's tenderness and love of the people was also not preserved in the original . Bitthäuser engraved one of the bas-reliefs after a drawing by Jakob Gauermann .

Web links

Commons : Johann Pleikard Bitthäuser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the ADB.
  2. ↑ So the picture index .
  3. ↑ For the summer semester 1833 ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bitthäuser is listed in the course catalog without the title of professor. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.google.de
  4. ^ Carl Ruland:  Bitthäuser, Johann Pleikard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 684.
  5. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc: A - Boe. 1 . 3. Edition. Schwarzenberg & Schumann, 1835, p. 516 (564 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Alfred Wendehorst: The Neumünster Abbey in Würzburg (=  Germania Sacra, New Series . Volume 26 ). Walter de Gruyter, 1989, ISBN 3-11-012057-7 , ISSN  0435-5857 , p. 361 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Bitthäuser, Johann Pleikard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bittheuser, Johann Pleikard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1774 or April 7, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Butthard
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1859 or July 24, 1859