Moritz Bodenehr

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Moritz Bodenehr (born March 26, 1665 in Freiberg , † March 6, 1749 in Dresden ) was a German engraver .

Life

Moritz Bodenehr came from the Augsburg book printer and engraver family Bodenehr , his father was Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631–1703). Moritz's brothers Gabriel (1664–1758) and Georg Konrad (1673–1710) also became engravers. Moritz's sons Johann Georg Friedrich (1691–1730) and Johann Gottfried (1696–1743), who both settled back in Augsburg, are considered to be the family's best engraver.

After training as a copper engraver and years of traveling, Moritz Bodenehr settled in Dresden before 1691. Here he owned a workshop near the shooting house and was appointed court copper engraver for the Elector of Saxony . Bodenehr created numerous graphically demanding works, especially vedute , engravings on contemporary events, calendars, theater decorations and portraits. A total of over 100 works by him have come down to us.

In 1712, the Russian Tsar Peter I met the goldsmith Johann Melchior Dinglinger during his visit to Dresden and admired a compass rose that he had installed in his house. Peter had this anemometer , consisting of a clock, anemometer and wind direction indicator, reproduced in a larger form for his summer palace in St. Petersburg, with Dinglinger doing the work together with Moritz Bodenehr and Andreas Gärtner. Bodenehr created the graphic representations of the dials with allegorical images, a world map and a ring with details of the wind speeds and the wind rose.

His original creations also include a rebus-shaped wedding poem from 1720 . Individual words in the text were replaced by images, which had to be "read" in order to capture the content. The hinged work was created on the occasion of the wedding of the Dresden court jeweler Carl Heinrich Schrötel with Johanna Elisabeth, daughter of the piece caster Michael Weinhold on April 8, 1720. The creator and background of the creation were only discovered in the 1930s and subsequently deciphered and scientifically researched. Other similar festival newspapers from Bodenehr were created between 1720 and 1728.

Other works (selection)

  • Three copperplate engravings for decoration by: Bernhard Schmied: A troubled but undaunted Christian. Unconquerable hope for God Bey the high-eared corpse = the welcome of the well-bored Mr. Wolf Caspars von Klengel. Dresden [1691]. on-line
  • South view of the old Frauenkirche (1714)
  • Showpieces for the Andencken of the great jubilation, which because of the Reformation Lutheri started two hundred years ago in 1717 d. October 31. was solemnly celebrated in the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1717)
  • Coffin of Countess Catharina Henriette Fleming, copper engraving (1721)
  • Prospect of the Old Women's Church around midnight (1728)
  • The stable building on Neumarkt in Dresden after its conversion into a festival house (1731)
  • Description of the illumination of dresses at the Royal Socilian marriage carried out in power of attorney, along with other related presentations and various Kupffer engravings (1738)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathias Ullmann: Saxon influences when the Petersburg art camera was founded - Saxon scientific and technical instruments in St. Petersburg, in: Image change: Saxon-Russian cultural transfer in the Age of Enlightenment. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.), Böhlau Verlag, 2009, page 69 ff. (Online)
  2. ↑ Barbara Krafft: The love stock trade on Venusiana or: How do you read a Dresden Rebus from 1720? , in: Working Group Image Print Paper - Conference proceedings Dresden 2005, Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2006, page 53 ff. (online)

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personal data
SURNAME Bodenehr, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1749
Place of death Dresden