Martin Engelbrecht

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Martin Engelbrecht, engraving by his son-in-law Philipp Andreas Kilian
Arth Pandurian Straff , around 1760
Nutsch Moloff , early 18th century, based on a model by Jacques Callot

Martin Engelbrecht (born September 16, 1684 in Augsburg ; † January 18, 1756 there ) was a copper engraver and art publisher of the Baroque period .

life and work

Engelbrecht worked in Augsburg with his brother Christian (1672–1735) as an ornament and vedute engraver . In 1924 the author Friedrich Schott recorded an oeuvre of Engelbrecht with more than 3000 engravings, the majority of which were cityscapes, ornamental engravings, portraits , military and historical events and allegorical depictions.

In 1718 he married Sybilla, the daughter of the goldsmith Andreas Wickhert. In 1719 Engelbrecht received an imperial privilege to protect against pirated prints. It was valid for ten years and was renewed twice. Around 1730 he published a compilation of colored copperplate engravings under the title Assemblage nouveau des manouvries habilles: a newly opened collection of artists, craftsmen and professions dressed in their own work and tools .

The Engelbrecht series of copper engravings from around 1742/45 about "exotic" soldiers in the German theater of war ( Theater de la milice etrangere; show stage of various soldiers from foreign nations who were previously unknown in Germany ) is particularly well known, and here above all the Pandours . The series comprises around 150 single sheets depicting irregular troops from the time of the War of the Austrian Succession . In addition to the “Sclavonian” clappers, Croats, Pandours and Haiducken, there are also some “mountain scots” to be seen. Each sheet is provided with an explanatory quatrain, which often refers to the "strangeness" and "novelty" of the warriors depicted. Through their “costumes”, the characters represented appear as if roles embodied by actors. Engelbrecht's series apparently met a particular demand for “exotic” visual material about the protagonists of the war of that time and - considering the large number of imitators that his work has found - can be classified as extremely successful. The series is exhibited in the Vienna Army History Museum .

Cut-out sheet

Martin Engelbrecht's publishing work also includes a large number of so-called “cut-out sheets”. In the baroque era, many people had a preference for working with paper. Cutting out objects from paper, then coloring them and finally sticking them on was a popular pastime for children and adults at the time.

Many of Engelbrecht's cut-out sheets showed contemporary imagery with hunting scenes, depictions of rural life, soldiers, people in foreign countries and domestic animals. There were also sheets showing a complete apartment with kitchen, cellar, living room, bedroom and servant room. The sheets could be used as didactic material to teach children in a vivid way how to work as a farmer, hunter, soldier or in housekeeping. With the help of the cut-out backdrops, those interested were able to plan their own garden using the gardens shown, and religious people were able to depict biblical scenes in pictures. On the basis of the detailed representations of the different Augsburg costumes , cutters and viewers learned a lot about the dress codes of the time, then as now.

exhibition

From March 1 to June 10, 2019, the Graphic Collection of the City of Augsburg in the Schaezlerpalais will show selected works by Engelbrecht in an exhibition entitled Cutting out of Passion as part of its temporary exhibitions . The art publisher and engraver Martin Engelbrecht (1684 1756). With the help of numerous picture sheets and three-dimensional dioramas , visitors can experience the varied world of images Engelbrecht and his contemporaries.

literature

Web links

Commons : Martin Engelbrecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natascha Niemeyer-Wasserer (ed.): From the crown to the citizen . Baldham 2011. pp. 64-74
  2. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: Martin Engelbrecht and the auxiliary people of Maria Theresa , in: Gerda Mraz (ed.): Maria Theresia as Queen of Hungary , exhibition in Halbturn Castle, Burgenland, May 15 - October 26, 1980; Halbturn Castle, Eisenstadt 1980, pp. 45–51; quoted with: Marian Füssel: Theatrum Belli. The war as a staging and theater of knowledge in the 17th and 18th centuries , academic work at the University of Münster online at metaphorik.de , accessed on May 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790 . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , pp. 29, 64
  4. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: * Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 19.
  5. ^ Art collections and museums in Augsburg: Cut out from Passion - the art publisher and engraver Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756). Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver of the baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1756
Place of death augsburg