Sebastian Furck
Sebastian Furck (* about 1598 or 1589 in Alterkuelz / Hunsrück, † 1655 or 1666 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engraver.
Life and work
The father of Sebastian Furck was a Protestant pastor in Alterkuelz. From the neighboring Kastellaun came Eberhard Kieser ( born in 1583 and also pastor's son ), which is a publishing business in Frankfurt am Main, where he from 1623 published a collection of engravings with views of the city from the then known world together with Daniel Meisner under the title Thesaurus philopoliticus, German title Political treasure.
Sebastian Furck came in 1612 in his early youth to Frankfurt am Main, lived there as a sojourner, and received the 1642 Civil Rights. He learned in Kieser's workshop, and then worked as a journeyman with a major "political Schatzkästleins " on different parts of the. His job was to make engravings for this compilation with a total of 830 city views he - had previously drawn after nature - more often than his colleagues. His engravings are partially signed with Sebast. F. fec or with the intertwined initials SF, partially with the addition f or fecit. Characteristic of the Political treasure was that each city view was accompanied by a symbolic emblem with explanatory epigram; these sayings - in Latin and German - the co-editor Daniel Meisner (1585-1625) had written.
By Sebastian Furck submitted, inter alia, the cityscapes of simmering, Kirchberg ( Hunsrück) and Kastellaun. The engraving of Kastellaun has the special feature that the draftsman and engraver has shown himself, as he - sitting right in the foreground with his drawing stuff - his publisher Eberhard Kieser standing holding in the picture in front of his home town of Kastellaun; between the two there are two rabbits in their Sasse. The matching epigram under the picture reads: "Look rather see UNSCR Vatterlandt, / Since You and I probably seind bekandt / The Haas have liked is because it was before / Geheckt, up hebts main. . "
The number of the Furck engraved for larger works and historical portraits plants is enormous. Even the Frankfurt pioneer of cultural history Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen refrained, they provide a comprehensive list. For the sixth part of de Bry's " Bibliotheca chalcographica " he stood alone 53 portraits and plates to the second edition of Johann Wilhelm " Architectura Civilis "
Furck stood out among other things, for Matthew Merian's Theatrum Europaeum.