Matthäus Küsel

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Glory sheet on the Hungarian palatine Franz Wesselenyi , 1663, HGM
Stage design from Il pomo d'oro , 1667

Matthäus Küsel (born February 12, 1629 in Augsburg , † 1681 there ) was a German engraver from the Augsburg copper engraver and goldsmith family Küsel.

life and work

Matthäus Küsel was born as the son of the watchmaker and goldsmith Matthias Küsel († 1664). Study trips took him to Venice in 1656 . In 1658 he married a daughter of the painter Bernhard Zech. Subsequently, Küsel was employed by the Bavarian and imperial courts , so he often stayed in Munich and Vienna . Finally he was appointed court engraver and from then on often signed his works with "S. [acre] C. [aesareae] M. [aiestatis] sculptor" . Numerous portraits of the imperial family by the hand of Matthäus Küsel are preserved today in the Austrian National Library .

His extensive oeuvre includes portraits, leaflets , calendars , book illustrations and theses based on his own and third-party models, as well as remarkable stage architecture based on Lodovico Burnacini (1636–1707), such as 40 representations from the opera " Il pomo d'oro " by Antonio Cesti . He also made numerous depictions of saints, a large part of which is in the graphic collection of Göttweig Abbey .

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on Bildarchiv.at , accessed on August 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ on harvardartmuseums.org , accessed on August 29, 2017.
  3. ^ Digitized holdings of the Göttweig Abbey Graphical Collection , accessed on August 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ on gallery.ca , accessed on August 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Küsel, Matthäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1681
Place of death augsburg