Conrad Buno
Conrad Buno (also: Conradt and Konrad Baun as well as variants with tree and Buna ) (* 1613 in Hessian- Frankenberg, † May 22 1671 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German court engraver, publisher, artist and book dealers. In particular, many Lower Saxony is Buno at least unconsciously known, since numerous old town views have been reproduced after his drawings of Merian as large format engravings.
Life
Family
The youth of Conrad Buno falls within the period of the Thirty Years' War, in their confusion lost many documents and entire cities and countless people homeless or become homeless, attracted by the country. Exact life human data from this period therefore often missing or have been partially reconstructed retrospectively, often based on their own biographical details of relevant people:
Starting from the occupied in the secondary literature indicating that Conrad Buno was a brother of the rector John Buno in Lüneburg, he was the son of a member of the Frankenberger Councillor Ludwig Buno and Elisabeth, born Helfreich ( daughter of the eponymous priest in Munden ). Konrad Bunos paternal grandfather, also named Conrad Buno, was princely Hessian advice. It is assumed that the later engraver "was born no later than 1616 ".
On September 25, 1649 Conrad Buno and Agnes Anna Wichmann married (died November 26, 1691, " daughter of the princely Commissärs and mayor " in Wolfenbüttel, Henning Wichmann ).
Career
Who died on April 24, 1639 pastor of St. Catherine's Church in Brunswick, Joachim Jordan, there was a brass plate, which was signed " Conradt Baun ". Therefore, the first appearance of Conrad Buno in Braunschweig was reconstructed at the latest by the year 1640. As court engraver of Duke Augustus of Brunswick to Buno boasted in April 1649 to have the Duke served " now at the eleven year." Between 1641 and 1643 Buno made a stab with the representation of the feeder of his master in Wolfenbüttel; during this period Buno got a private room at Castle Wolfenbüttel assigned and created multiple images of the prince. Out of a possible oil paintings, however, have apparently not received.
1649 Buno received his prince permit to start their own business premises for publishing trade and open bookstore. Although it was common for engravers of his time, so to expand the work and income field, but the business Bunos was the first of its kind in Wolfenbüttel. In the same year he married Agnes Anna Wichmann, the mayor's daughter.
Book and publishing business, however, came only slowly under way. Reason was Bunos producing drawings for the initiated by Matthäus Merian and continued by the sons Topographia Germaniae: For the pictures Topographia and Actual Description The Vornembsten staete, castles and other places and loci where Hertzogthümer [n ] of Brunswick and Lüneburg, and those to belong [ s ] Graf managed Lord managed and landing traveled Buno from 1650 for three years across the country - the Peace of Westphalia made it now relatively safe to do so - to the templates for a number of local and city views of the (then) to draw two countries associated with Merian were then stabbed in Frankfurt in copper.
So Buno could bring his plan for Publishing bookstore and bookshop open in Wolfenbüttel until 1655 really going. To this end, he booked in the same year for the first time an exhibition opportunity at the Frankfurt trade fair for the works offered by him. Since there he had but made the business dispute " traveling merchants " other booksellers, he bought himself for the fair in 1665, the privilege that other dealers " selling books allowed only at the time of the year, markets or special permission ."
Probably in the same year Buno 1665 Member of the Council of the town of Wolfenbüttel. Before his death, he had risen to the Treasurer of the City Council. Bunos widow survived her husband by twenty years, she died on 26 November 1691st
Works (selection)
- 1640: with " Conradt Baun " signed brass plate with the portrait of the pastor Joachim Jordan
- The funeral for the Dukes and Georg Wilhelm of Brunswick and Lüneburg in 1643
- Before 1649: portraits of and for August Duke of Brunswick
- Before 1650: Drawings for Martin Goskys Arbustum et Arboretum Augustaeum, Aeternitati ac domui Augustae Selenianae sacrum, J. and H. Stern, Wolfenbüttel 1650 NA 1693
- From 1650: drawings of numerous city views from (today's ) Lower Saxony, which as a template for Merian's copperplates Topographia and Actual Description The Vornembsten staete, castles and other places and loci where Hertzogthümer [n ] of Brunswick and Lüneburg, and those associated end [ n] Graf succeeded Mr. managed and landing served and some are among the oldest surviving city views.