GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



workconfifts of artift* and artifans, reprefented in their re- 

 fpcftivc employments : among them arc feme excellent fi- 

 gures, and in that which rcprelents the engraver, Animan 

 has given his own portrait. A fecond edition was printed 

 A.D. 1574, and a third in 1588, but tiie lirll is now become 

 very Icarce. The book is a laigc oftavo. 



A fet of one lumdred and two, belides the portrait of 

 Feyerabandt, for a Latin edition of Livy, printed at Frank- 

 fort 1572-3 in oblong quarto. 



Ani)lh..'r fet for a foho edition of Pliny, printed alfo at 

 Frankfort A.D. 15S4. Another fet for a ipiarto book of 

 hunting, printed at Frankfort in 15H2, which book was 

 tonfiderably augmented after the death of Amman, and re- 

 printed in 161 7. Another fet of one hundred and three of 

 ecclefiaitical habits, dated 1564, and another of one hun- 

 dred and twenty, for " Gynaceum, fivcTheatrum Mulierurn, 

 in quorum prxcipuarum omnium per Europam, &c." in 

 oblong quarto, printed at Frankfort, 1586. 



Chriftopher Maurer engraved from his own compofitions, 

 »nd from thofe of T.Stimmcr, botli on copper and on wood. 

 He was born at Zurich A.D. 1558, and died at Wintert- 

 hour in 1614. His father Jofliua was an artift, and under 

 the paternal roof he learned the rudiments of art, but was 

 afterwards removed to Stralburg, and placed under Tobias 

 Stimmer, where both the mafter and fcholar were clofe llu- 

 dents, and foon began to be diftinguiflied by the number of 

 interefting and beautiful works which they produced. 



The cypher of Maurer will be found in our fecond plate of 

 German monograms. After paffing fome years in the 

 I'choolof Stimmer, lie returned to his native city, and added 

 to his reputation by his frefco piftures which adorn the fa- 

 9adesof dirtinguiliied hdufes, and by thejuft likenefTes he 

 difplayed in his portraits ; with the true I'pirit of a Swifs 

 artill, he always preferred patriotic fubjects, and has often 

 painted the origin of the Helvetic confederacy. 



Of his engravings, thole on copper are moft fought after 

 t)V connolifeurs, particularly a fet of bible cuts, and four 

 emblematical etchings relative to proceedings in the courts of 

 law, which, after the death of the artift, weK introduced 

 into a Latin book. 



Of his letter-prefs engravings, which are neatly executed, 

 tlic bell are probably the fet of animals of the chace, which 

 he executed in coniunftion with his mafter, and which were 

 publiihed at Stralburg in the year 1605. And a fet of the 

 bible under the title of " Hiftorifciie Vorftellungen iiber 

 die ganze Bibel," which do honour to his inventive talent, as 

 well as to his manual powers as an engraver. 



Chriftopher Jamitzer, or Jamnitzer, was born at Nurem- 

 berg :n the year 1560, and died in the fame city in 1617. He 

 pertormed leveral etchings which are marked with the c)'pher 

 « hieh the reader will iind among our monograms of the 

 German engravers, but they are far from being of firft rate 

 merit. 



Of the fame family were Bartholomew and Wenceflaus 

 Jiunitzer, whom we pafs as unimportant perlbns. 



Thebcft walks of Chriftopher confift of groups of boys 

 varioufly occupied, and the beft of tliefe groups are thole 

 which follow : A fet of twelve, in izmo.; another fet of 

 twelve, mounted on marine anim.als ; another fet of four 

 combined with fwaus, flowers. Sec.; fourciiildren dancing in 

 an arbour. A fet of grotefque chimeras, in quarto ; Chrif- 

 topher jamitzer alfo engraved a portrait of himfclf fitting 

 ina perfpeftive macliiue, in the aft of drawing or nieafunrg. 



Mattliew Greuter was born at Stralburg A.D. 1564. He 

 travelled more than once to Lyons and Avignon, and from 

 thence to Reme for profeflioiial improvement, in wliich 

 latter city, in the year 163S, he died. 



Strutt defcribes him as a man of genius, but fo mucK 

 praife as is implied in this word, cannot juftly be allowed him. 

 He worked partly from his own compofitions, but his draw- 

 ing is by no means corretl ; his extremities in particular 

 being fadly neglected. He fomelimes executed his plates 

 with the graver only, in a neat ftyle, and in other inftances 

 has employed ctcliing. His principal productions are, the 

 portraits of tiie popes Innocent X., and Sixtus V., the 

 latter furrounded with an ornamental border in which the 

 jiapal coinage is introduced. Cardinal Seraphinus Olivarius 

 Razzalius ; all in quarto. 



Of his hittorical works we ftiall only mention " The Vir- 

 gin and Child,'' leated in a landfeape, alter Daroccio. M=ry 

 Magdalen leaning her right lund upon a Ikull, alter S. Gae- 

 tano, dated 1584; both in quarto. An emblematical print 

 of Venus ftanding on a globe, with various virtues and vices 

 perfonified, very neatly fmilhed, and marked M. Greuti r 

 inv. et fee. 15S7, in fmall folio. " The Fall of Phaeton," 

 after Windel Dieterlin, in large folio, dated 1588. " The 

 Deilruftion of Troy," after Lanfranc, and the magnili- 

 cent cavalcade of the emperor Charles V. engraved by Greu- 

 ter ill concert witl; Lucas Vorllerman, a large print of the 

 frieze form, engraved on feveral plates. 



As Jean Frederic, the fon of Miittliew.Greuter, was bom 

 at Ronu-, and lived and died in Italy, our account of him 

 will be found under Italian' School of Engravers. 



Matthias Knger was born at Munich in the year i 566, and 

 died at Auglburg in 1634. He fludied in Italy, and befide 

 ranking higli among the hiftorical painters of his time, was an 

 engraver of merit. His llyle is neat, and performed chiefly 

 with the graver, though iometinies with the admixture of 

 etching. His attachment to liberty, and averfion to the man- 

 ners ot a German court, induced him to quit that of Bavariii, 

 and he became a citizen and finally a burgomafter of Augf- 



S. Kilian engraved a portrait of him in 1626. The bed 

 of his own prints are : "Tlie Adoration of the Shepherd;," 

 dated t6io. " St. John Baptiling Chrill in the river Jor- 

 dan," both of the folio fize, and from compofilions by h^m- 

 felf : " The Holy Family," in an oval, alfo from his own 

 pifture, and in 4to. and " St. Francis furrounded by the 

 Monks of his Order, to whom Chrift and the Virgin Mary 

 are appearing in the Clouds," a middling-fized upright from 

 P. Remigius Bozzulo. 



Of Adam Ellheimer, furnamcd Adam of Frankfort, who 

 fhould elfe have been mentioned in this place, we have already 

 fpoken. See Ei.^iiElMElt. 



Theodore Kruger, or Cruger, was born in the city of 

 Munich A.D. 1576. He travelled to Italy for improve- 

 ment, where he formed his ftyle of engraving on that of 

 Francifco Villamena. He handled the graver, which was tlie 

 fole inftrument of his art, with boidnefs, iieedom, and facility, 

 but his chiarofcuro is very defective, and his outlines incoi - 

 reft and hard. 



His principal engravings are : " The Life of St. John the 

 Baptift,'' on twelve upright folio plates, after Andrea del 

 Sarto, with the portrait of the painter prclixed, and dedicated 

 to Cofmo de Medicis, dated 1618. " The Laft Supper," ia 

 large folio, after the fame. " The return of the Hoiy 

 Family from Egypt," where the infant is embracing Jeius 

 Chrift, after F. Bigio, alfo in folio. "The infant Saviour 

 bleffing the little St. John," after the fame jniinter. And 

 " A Prince on a Tribunal, furrounded by divers Statefmcii," 

 after Lasifranco, and iiifcribed "Vox mihi." 



Cruger has alio cngiaven fome portraits after Gabriel 

 Waver, to which he iigns his nrnie Fiitricli Cruger, by which 

 Chrilliaii name he is bell known in Italy. 



Theodore 



