Georg Wolfgang Knorr

Georg Wolfgang Knorr ( born December 30, 1705 Nuremberg, † September 17, 1761 ) was a German engraver and collector of fossils.

In his youth he worked in woodcut his father's trade. In 1723 he became a member of Leonhard Blanc, working with Martin Tyroff on the illustration by Johann Jakob 's Physica Sacra Scheuchzer (1731 ). Later he engraved PORTAIS, landscapes geological formations, animal studies by Albrecht Dürer and the Kilian family. It helped that was published in the second half of the 18th century in Nuremberg more than in Augsburg. Impressions of his plates were often colored by hand.

The natural history of the fossils to explain the Knorrischen collection of curiosities of nature was posthumously published by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch for the first time in 1769.

Publications

• Deliciae Naturae selectae Or Auserlefenes kind Cabinet ( 1766-67 )
• Les Délices Des Yeux et de L' espirit, ou Collection Generale des Differentes Espèces de Coquillages ( 1764-73 ).
• Pleasure of the eyes and of the mind. In notion of a general collection of shells and other creatures that are found in the sea. Nuremberg 1757 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.39134