Sadeler family
Egidius Sadeler (also Aegidius Sadeler, in Czech called Jiljí Sadeler; * around 1570 in Antwerp, † 1629 in Prague ) was a Dutch painter and engraver at the court of Rudolf II in Prague.
Life
The most famous engraver of Emperor Rudolf II came from a well-known Antwerp engraver family. His craft he learned from his uncle Johann. In 1589 he was accepted into the guild of St. Luke. His first works he produced with his uncle in Munich, spent his journeyman years after 1593 in Venice and Rome. After 1595, he arrived in Prague and in 1597 was appointed court engraver of the emperor. Even after the death of the emperor, as many artists and personalities Prague left, remained Sadeler the City faithful.
Works
His first engravings he made reference to her templates. These included works by Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, Dürer and masters who were employed at the imperial court. Later own representations were added: landscapes and portraits of important personalities at the court of Rudolf II
The special feature of his engravings is the exact replica of the originals. As a particularly fruitful one can call the period of his collaboration with Joseph Heintz, Bartholomäus Spranger, Johann Jacob Stevens of Steinfels and Adriaen de Vries. The appearance of Prague and Central Europe and the cartographic editing the capital reached via his graphic sheets America and Asia.
His most notable bites are the portrait of the painter Spranger and his wife, Christina ( 1600), or look inside of the Vladislav Hall at (1607 ) and his contemporary representations of Prague.
In 1605 he made a map of Bohemia, the region of 48 ° 16 contained ' to 50 ° 58' Northern latitude and 29 ° 54 ' to 34 ° 28' Eastern longitude of the coordinate ago. The card contains floor plans of cities, maps of the regions Tschaslau, Eger, Chomutov, Laun, Prague and snakes.
1607 he completed seen the great panorama of the city of Prague from the mountain Petrein from.
1620 appears his Bohemia in suas partes geografice distincta, 390 x 450 mm in size and a scale. The engraving contains the upper part look at the cities of Prague, Egra, Zaslavia, Commona, Lavna, Slana on the left edge portraits of queens, nobles, merchants and farmers. At the Elbquelle Fons Albus was noted next to Mons Giganticum (Giant Mountains) with the explanation Montes Gagantum caco demone infesti quem incole Ribenzal vocant de quibus vulgo miranda recensutur. Furthermore, the legend lists: nouns que triangulum all were in tine sunt Bohemical.
His students include mainly Wenceslas Hollar and Joachim von Sandrart.
Further Reading
- Symbola Divina Et Humana Pontificum, Imperatorum, Regum: Ex Musaeo Octavii De Strada Civis Romani. Sadeler, Pragae 1601 ( digitized )
- Dejiny Českého výtvarného umění II / 1 ( History of Fine Arts II / 1). Prague, Akademia 1989
- Sadeler (engraver and art dealer family). In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 24, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p 299