Johann Daniel Preissler

Johann Daniel Preissler (also Preisler, Preißler; * January 17, 1666 in Nuremberg, † October 13, 1737 in Nuremberg) was a prominent member of an immigrant from Bohemia family of painters.

He painted portraits and histories, recorded and frescoed. Acquaintance than by his artistic works, of which particularly the nudes were praised, he was outside Nuremberg through his art theoretical writing sequence with the general title " The theory invented by Practic ". The individual books have been translated into several languages ​​and were used until the 19th century many characters to guide students (including Salomon Gessner in Switzerland).

First, he should have learned in Nuremberg in the way of his father, the portrait and history painter Daniel Preissler (1627-1665), after Johann Oriental Towers. From 1688 to 1696 was followed by a stay in Italy, including Rome and Venice. In 1705 he became director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts, which has become an under him to an urban institution. In 1716 he founded the school of drawing. This was also open " for poor people's children." It was a great success. With 71 students in the first year they had such a strong inflow, which Preisler apparently led to develop educational materials. Previously, he had published exclusively academic works, inter alia, to the anatomy, from 1721 appear in part for coloring the " Invented by Theory Practic or thoroughly written Reguln which you can use as a guide to famous Künstlere character Wercke well ". It also opens up Preisser academically rather marginal areas like the flower drawing and ornaments ( after 1725 ) and the landscape drawing ( 1739 ). He stressed however, that it represented only the beginning exercises.

The price Kindler Verlag family was continued by his sons, John Justin, Martin and Georg Johann Daniel Preissler.

1737 Johann Daniel Preissler died in Nuremberg, which is discussed with Jan Kupecky by Johann Caspar Fuseli as the most important painter of the early 18th century in Nuremberg.