Matthäus Pfister

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Matthäus Pfister (* around 1593 in Tübingen ; † 1650 there ) was a Württemberg bookbinder , Petschier engraver and etcher who was based in Tübingen. He was a younger brother of Hans Pfister who was active in the same field.

Life

Matthäus Pfister was a son of the Tübingen bookbinder Hans Pfister († 1602). After learning illumination , mathematics , geometry , mechanics , perspective and architecture from his father , Duke Johann Friedrich sent him to France and England to learn about sculpting in alabaster , marble and similar precious stones. After returning, Pfister settled in Tübingen in 1619, but did not work as a sculptor, but initially as a bookbinder, but soon increasingly as a pechier engraver. When he later applied for academic citizenship, he was prepared - in view of the difficult order situation - to forego cutting the seal and limit himself to bookbinding.

Like his brother, Matthäus Pfister worked as an eraser. An etched portrait of him is known. In addition, he probably made an engraving depicting the siege of Tübingen and two views of Esslingen , one of which was executed as a colored scagliola with the monogram MP . The other view, an oil painting on stone, suggests that Pfister was also active as a painter.

His son Matthäus Pfister (II.) (* 1623 or 1625, † 1667) was a coat of arms stone and seal cutter.

Well-known work

  • around 1630 Portrait of the lawyer Prof. Johann Martin Rümelin (etching)
  • 1647 Siege of Tübingen (engraving)
  • 1650 or shortly before: View of Esslingen (signed MP , colored Scagliola , Altertumssammlung Esslingen)
  • 1650 or shortly before: View of Esslingen (oil on stone, Esslingen Town Hall )

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 212
  2. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 427
  3. ↑ a b c Werner Fleischhauer: Barock ... , p. 102
  4. ↑ Illustration in: Max Schefold: Old Views from Württemberg , Vol. 1–2, Stuttgart 1956–1957, Fig. 57

literature

  • Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
  • Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216
  • Werner Fleischhauer: Baroque in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1958 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg), p. 102
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Matthäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfister, Mathias; Pfister, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg bookbinder, Petschier engraver and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH around 1593
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH 1650
Place of death Tübingen