Medardus Thoenert

Medardus Martin Thoenert , also Thönert , (born August 17, 1754 in Leipzig ; † March 21, 1814 there ) was a German master drawing and engraver, who left several engravings for Central Germany.

Life

Thoenert the son of a businessman from Leipzig. He was baptized on August 29, 1754 and from September 12, 1770 attended the Leipzig University to study philosophy, mathematics, beautiful sciences and practical geometry and the Leipzig Art Academy. He became a student of Johann Friedrich Baus and exhibited his first works in Dresden in 1773 and 1774. His works included portraits, landscapes, novel illustrations, copperplate engravings for almanacs, vignettes and medallions. In the years 1787 to 1798 he provided five large cover portraits (of Salomon Gessner , Angelika Kauffmann , Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz , Adrian Zingg , Johann Carl Gehler ) for the New Library of Fine Sciences . For Hirschfeld's theory of garden art , he made landscape pictures.

Works (selection)

Medallion of the Montgolfier brothers

1791: Title page on Faust's life, deeds and journey to hell .
Medallion with the profile of the Montgolfier brothers

literature

Johann Georg Meusel : Thönert (Medard) . In: Teutsches Künstlerlexikon or directory of the living German artists… 2nd edition. tape 2 . Meyer, Lemgo 1809, p. 430-431 ( books.google.de ).
Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon ... volume 18 : Surugue, PL-Torre, G . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1848, p. 355–356 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Thoenert, Medardus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 43 .

Web links

Commons : Medardus Thoenert - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Thoenert, Medardus in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

^ Thoenert (Medardus) . In: Johann Rudolf Füssli, Hans Heinrich Füssli (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, art founders, steel cutters ... Section 9, Part 2, 1816, S. 1861 ( books.google.de ).
↑ Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld et al .: Theory of garden art . 5 volumes. MG Weidmann's heirs and empire, Leipzig 1779.
↑ Martin Medardus Thönert . In: New Year's sheets of the library and the archive of the city of Leipzig . CL Hirschfeld, 1906, p. 103-104 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
↑ Friedrich Maximilian Klinger : Faust's life, deeds and journey to hell . Johann Friedrich Kriele, St. Petersburg 1791 ( archive.org ).
↑ Catalog of the historical department of the first International Airship Exhibition (ILA) in Frankfurt a. M. 1909 . Wüster & Co., Frankfurt a. M. 1912, p. 18–19 , No. 55, Figure 4 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Thoenert, Medardus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thoenert, Medardus Martin (full name); Thönert, Medardus Martin; Tonert, Medard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1814
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Thoenert (Medardus) . In: Johann Rudolf Füssli, Hans Heinrich Füssli (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, art founders, steel cutters ... Section 9, Part 2, 1816, S. 1861 ( books.google.de ).

[2] Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld et al .: Theory of garden art . 5 volumes. MG Weidmann's heirs and empire, Leipzig 1779.

[3] Martin Medardus Thönert . In: New Year's sheets of the library and the archive of the city of Leipzig . CL Hirschfeld, 1906, p. 103-104 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[4] Friedrich Maximilian Klinger : Faust's life, deeds and journey to hell . Johann Friedrich Kriele, St. Petersburg 1791 ( archive.org ).

[5] Catalog of the historical department of the first International Airship Exhibition (ILA) in Frankfurt a. M. 1909 . Wüster & Co., Frankfurt a. M. 1912, p. 18–19 , No. 55, Figure 4 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).