Johann Balzer

Johann Balzer ( Balzer czech January; born August 6 1738 in Kuks, † December 14, 1799 in Prague) was a Bohemian engraver, draftsman and publisher.

Life

Balzer went from 1750 to 1758 for teaching at Michael Heinrich Rentz, who worked as Hofgraveur with Count Franz Anton von Spork. After the death of his teacher Balzer undertook first a study trip to Germany and was then at the residence of Count Spork in Lissa on the Elbe down. In 1771, Balzer moved to Prague, where he worked as an independent engraver, draftsman and publisher until his death.

His two brothers, George Balzer ( Balzer Jiří ) and Matthias Balzer ( Balzer Matous ), were engravers and his son Karel Antonín Balzer ( 1771-1807 ), worked as a landscape painter.

Services

Johann Balzer stabbed portraits of contemporaries, including to the drawings of Johann Klein Hard, Johan Quirin Jahn, in copper.

There are about 50 engravings known that he has made ​​basic by the landscape drawings of his friend Norbert. He also delivered engravings of the works of the historian Josef Schaller; "Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia " and "Description of the Capital of Prague " and another for the periodical " Effigies virorum eruditorum atque artificium Bohemiae et Moraviae ". For Nicholas Adaukt Voigt's " Description of the hitherto known Bohemian Coins chronological order," he created vignettes.

Works

  • " 87 Bohemian and Moravian pictures scholars and artists ", engraved and published by Johann Balzer in copper, Prague 1772
  • " Sketchbook for artists and lovers of free men of hand drawing, especially as a more necessary part of the education of higher provision addresses ". - Drawing book for lovers of free men of landscape drawing. - 2 Tle in 1 vol with 81 etched plates ( st. 82), partly in Crayon Marnier. Prague, John Bach This 1783-92
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