Salomon Little

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Salomon Kleiner (born March 4, 1700 in Augsburg , † March 25, 1761 in Vienna ) was a vedute draftsman and engraver .

Life

View of the Vienna Palais Albrecht , engraving around 1726

Salomon Kleiner was the son of a court procurator and later notary of the same name, who came from Lindau . His mother, Maria Rosina Roggin from Augsburg, died shortly after his birth. At the age of 15 or 16 he started his apprenticeship with the Augsburg copper engraver Johann August Corvinus .

From 1720 he lived in Vienna , where he began to draw the monasteries, churches, secular buildings, streets and squares of the imperial city on behalf of the Augsburg art publishers Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674–1748) and Jeremias Wolff , whose engraving reproductions in a large-scale series of Viennese Vedutas were published between 1724 and 1737. He left Vienna for a long time only for the commission given by Lothar Franz von Schönborn to draw the Schönborn castles in Pommersfelden ( Weißenstein Palace ) and Mainz ( Schönborner Hof , Favorite Palace ) (1723–1726). His work was highly valued there and in 1724 he was awarded the title "Chur-Mainzischer Ingenieur". After this work, Kleiner returned to Vienna, probably in 1727, to continue his vedute work. In 1744 he created his copper engraving at Göttweig Abbey . From 1746, Kleiner worked as a professor at the Theresianum. From 1750 illustrations were created for the Monumenta Augustae Domus Austriacae. Kleiner lived in Vienna in the Josefstadt. There he died in the house of the golden snake.

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General view of the Mainz Favorite , engraving from 1726

With his city vedutas and views, Kleiner created works that had the highest representational value for his princely and patrician clients. Due to their accuracy and attention to detail, they are also outstanding documents of building culture and urban planning. His drawings were also the basis for copper engravings and etchings, some of which were imitated several times, such as his preliminary drawing of a general view of Würzburg dated 1725 . In many cases, his engravings are the only sources today that show the original shape of the buildings with their original furnishings and fittings. Kleiner's oeuvre is above all a unique compendium of baroque architecture in southern Germany and Austria.

  • Residences Memorables De l'incomparable Heros de nôtre Siecle ou Representation exacte des Edifices et Jardins de Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Le Prince EUGENE FRANCOIS Duc de Savoye et de Piemont… Belvedere Palace and the associated gardens (1731–1740); Augsburger Verlag Jeremias Wolff Erben, ( Mainz City Library (Sign. 731 f 1 (R)))
  • Vera et accurata delineatio omnium templorum et coenobiorum quae tam in caesarea urbe ac sede Vienna, Austriae, quam in circumjacentibus suburbijs ejus reperiuntur . Kleiner's famous views of Vienna. Online at archive.org : Part 1 and Part 2

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

Web links

Commons : Salomon Kleiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanswernfried Muth: Pictorial and cartographic representations of the city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 294–307 and 901, here: p. 306.
  2. ^ Graphic Collection Stift Göttweig - Stift Göttweig, view from the south
  3. ^ Hanswernfried Muth: Pictorial and cartographic representations of the city. 2004, p. 306 f.
personal data
SURNAME Little one, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian architectural draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1761
Place of death Vienna