Matthäus Küsel
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
- Glory sheet on the Hungarian palatine Franz Wesselényi . 1663, copper engraving, approx. 80 × 60 cm, Army History Museum , Vienna
- Stage sets for Il pomo d'oro , scenes 3 to 5, 1667, National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa
literature
- Küsel, Mathäus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 73 .
- Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: Küsell, Matthaeus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 434.
Individual evidence
- ↑ on Bildarchiv.at , accessed on August 29, 2017.
- ↑ on harvardartmuseums.org , accessed on August 29, 2017.
- ^ Digitized holdings of the Göttweig Abbey Graphical Collection , accessed on August 29, 2017.
- ↑ 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 |