Sebastian Furck
Sebastian Furck (* around 1598 or 1589 in Alterkülz / Hunsrück ; † 1655 or 1666 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engraver .
life and work
Sebastian Furck's father was a Protestant pastor in Alterkülz. Eberhard Kieser (born 1583 and also pastor's son) came from the neighboring Kastellaun , who ran a publishing business in Frankfurt am Main, in which, together with Daniel Meisner , he published a collection of copperplate engravings with city views from the then known world from 1623 under the title Thesaurus philopoliticus , German title Politisches Schatzkästlein .
Sebastian Furck came to Frankfurt am Main in 1612 in his early youth, lived there as a settee and received citizenship in 1642. He learned in Kieser's workshop and then worked as a journeyman significantly on the various parts of the "Political Treasure Chest". His task was to make copperplate engravings for this compilation with a total of 830 cityscapes, which he - more often than his colleagues - had previously drawn from nature. Some of his engravings are signed Sebast. F. fec or with the intertwined initials SF , sometimes with the addition f or fecit . It was characteristic of the Political Treasure Chest that a symbolic emblem with an explanatory motto was attached to every cityscape ; these sayings - in Latin and German - were written by co-editor Daniel Meisner (1585–1625).
From Sebastian Furck come a. a. the city views of Simmern , Kirchberg (Hunsrück) and Kastellaun. The copper engraving by Kastellaun has the peculiarity that the draftsman and engraver depicted himself - sitting in the foreground on the right with his drawing material - holding his publisher Eberhard Kieser standing in front of his home town Kastellaun; two rabbits sit in their seat between the two. The matching motto under the illustration reads: "You better see our Vatterlandt, / Since I and you are well known. / Haas really likes to stay because he has been hatched / lifts his head up."
The number of works engraved by Furck for larger works and historical portraits is very large. Even the Frankfurt pioneer of cultural history, Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen , refrained from listing them in full. For the sixth part of de Bry's "Bibliotheca chalcographica" alone he engraved 53 portraits and the plates for the second edition of Johann Wilhelm's "Architectura civilis"
Furck also stood out for Matthäus Merian's Theatrum Europaeum .
literature
- Henning Bock : Furck, Sebastian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 734 ( digitized version ).
- Daniel Meisner and Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus philopoliticus or political treasure chest ; Facsimile reprint of the Frankfurt a. M. 1625-1626 and 1627-1631 with an introduction and a complete register of town pictures by Klaus Eymann. Unterschneidheim 1972 and 2nd edition 1974.
- Hans Georg Wehrens: Freiburg in the "Thesaurus philopoliticus" by Daniel Meisner and Eberhard Kieser; in: Freiburg im Breisgau 1504-1803, woodcuts and copper engravings; Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2004, p. 99 ff. ISBN 3-451-20633-1 .
- Philipp Friedrich Gwinner: Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main: from the thirteenth century to the opening of the Städel'schen Kunstinstitut , Verlag Joseph Baer, 1862, ISBN 1-148-40794-4 , pp. 121–123 online full text
- Johann Wilhelm. Architectura civilis. Frankfurt 1668
Web links
- Literature by and about Sebastian Furck in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d See literature Philipp Friedrich Gwinner: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main: from the thirteenth century to the opening of the Städel'schen Kunstinstitut
- ↑ see literature Johann Wilhelm: Architectura civilis.
- ↑ [1] People Search Your Traces
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furck, Sebastian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1598 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alterkülz , Hunsrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1655 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt |