Johann Georg Schmidt (engraver)

Johann Georg Schmidt ( born August 23, 1694 Augsburg, † March 15, 1767 in Braunschweig ) was a German engraver.

Life and work

Schmidt was born in Augsburg, and had previously worked in Dresden, before he came to the engraving workshop of the originating also from Augsburg Johann Georg Beck to Brunswick.

After Beck had died in 1722, Schmidt married his widow Anna Elisabeth, born Füllekrug, took over the workshop and the title of Hofkupferstechers. Schmidt made ​​in his workshop the son of Anton August Beck in craftsmanship. Schmidt made ​​as Beck mainly portraits of Brunswick clergy and people of the ducal house to, but the quality of the work lagged behind that of its predecessor, and his son.

After his death in 1767 his stepson Anton August Beck took over the family business again and ran it successfully until his death in 1787 continues.

Works

1740 appeared in the book written by the Hanoverian Mayor Christian Ulrich Grupen book Origines Et Antiqvitates Hanoverenses ... more stitches by JG Schmidt, Br ( unsviga ) by EE Brown, digitized from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. There can be found

• Facies Antiqua Honoverae versus Valvam lapideam ( Stein-Thor. ), a view of the area in front of the stone gate of Hanover with the St. Nicholas Cemetery (p. 00070a )
• FACIES ANTIQUA NOVAE CIVITATIS HONOVERANAE (page 00256a ), a reconstructed map of the area around the later Calenberger Neustadt
• HONOVERA ANTIQUA, a reconstructed plan of the Old Town of Hanover (page 00278a )