Johanna Sibylla Küsel
Johanna Sibylla Küsel (born around 1650 in Augsburg ; died January 15, 1717 there ), was a German draftsman and engraver .
Life
Küsel was the daughter of Melchior Küsel (1626–1683), an engraver and publisher; as well as the niece of Maria Sibylla Merian . In 1672, in her father's workshop, she copied the eleven etchings of Jacques Callot's Nouveau Testament in technically perfect, meticulous work. Through this work she became known and made other copper engravings as copies of well-known paintings by Adam Elsheimer , including Venus and Cupid in a landscape . The latter works are now lost, but have been called their best.
After marrying a former assistant to her father, Johann Ulrich Krauss in 1685, she signed her work with Kraussin or Krausin . She continued to work as a copperplate engraver, both in collaboration with her husband and independently and with other publishers. She never made stitches according to her own designs. Only red chalk drawings made by her indicate her own artistic work.
literature
- Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst eV: The Hidden Museum Part I: Documentation of the art of women in Berlin public collections . Berlin 1987.
- Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 192 f. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Küsel, Johanna Sibylla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraussin; Frizz; Krauss, Johanna Sibylla (married name); Kiesel, Johanna Sibylla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1650 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1717 |
| Place of death | augsburg |