GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



workconfifts of artilH and artifans, reprefcnted in their re- 

 fpeftivc einploymenls : among them are feme excellent h- 

 eures, and in 'that wliieli repreients the engraver, Annman 

 ha? given his own portrait. A fecond edition was prmted 

 A.D. 1574, and a third in 1588, but the Ihll is now become 

 verv Icarce. The book is a large oftavo. 



A let oF one hundred and two, befidcs the portrait of 

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

 fort 1572-3 in oblong quarto. 



Another fet for a foho edition of Pliny, prmted alio at 

 Frankfort A.D. 15S4. Anotlicr fet for a quarto book of 

 liunting, printed at Frankfort in 1582, which book was 

 confiderably augmented after the death of Amman, and re- 

 printed in 1617. Another fet of one hujidred and three of 

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

 dred and twenty, for " Gynaceum, live Thcatrum Mulierimi, 

 in quorimi pr.ccipuanim omnium per Europam, &c." m 

 oblong quarto, printed at Frankfort, I 586. 



Clirillopher Maurer engrived from his own compofitions, 

 »nd from thofe of T.Stimmer, both on copper and ou wood. 

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

 hour in 1614. His father Jolluia was an artill, and under 

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

 afterwards removed to Stralhurg, and placed under Tobias 

 Stimmcr, where both the mailer and fchular were clofe llu- 

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

 inteivfting and beautiful works which they produced. 



The cypher of Maurer w ill be found in our feeond plate of 

 German ' monograms. After paP.ing fome years in the 

 fchoolof Stimmer, he returned to his native city, and added 

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

 cades of diilinguiihed houfes, and by thejuft hkenefles 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, thoi'e on copper are moil fought after 

 t)y connoiffeurs, particularly a fet of bible cuts, and four 

 emblematical etchings relative to proceedings in the courts of 

 law, which, after the death of the artill, wepc introduced 

 into a Latin book. 



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

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

 he executed in coniunftion with his mailer, and which were 

 publiihed at Stra(l)nrg iu the year 1605. And a fet of the 

 bible uuder the title of " Hiftorifche Vorflellungcn iiber 

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

 well as to his manual powers as an engraver. 



Chriftopher .lamitzer, or Jamnitzer, was born at Nurem- 

 berg in the year I j6o, and died in the fame city in 1617. He 

 performed levcral etchings which are marked with the cypher 

 whieh the reader will iind iimong our monograms of the 

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

 merit. 



Of the fame family were Bartholomew and Wenceflaus 

 Jamit/er, whom we pafs as unimportant perfons. 



Thebe'l works of Clirillopher coniill of groups of boys 

 Tarioufly occupied, and the bell of thefe groups are thole 

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

 twelve, mounted on mai-ine anim.als ; another fet of four 

 combined with fwaiis, flowers, See; four children dancing in 

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

 topher jamitzer alfo engraved a portrait of himfelf fitting 

 iii^a pcrfpedlive machine, in the aft of drawing or meafurirg. 



Matthew Greuter was born at Strailnirg ri.D. 1564. He 

 travelled more tlun once to Lyons and Avignon, and from 

 thence to R<^me for profelfional improvement, in wliich 

 latter city, iu the year 1638, he died. 



Strutt defcribes hiin as a man of genius, but fo much 

 praife as is implied hi this word, cannot jiillly be allowed him. 

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

 inir is by no means correft ; his extremities in pai-tieular 

 being fadly neglected. He fometimes executed his plates 

 with the graver only, in a neat flyle, and in other inllaneei 

 has employed etcliing. His principal produclions are, the 

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

 latter furrounded \eith an ornamental border in which the 

 ]vdpal coinage is introduced. Cardiiid Seraphinus Olivarius 

 Ka/.zalius ; all in quarto. 



Of his hillorical works we Hiall onlymention " The Vir- 

 gin and Child,'' featedin a landfeape, after Baroccio. M=ry 

 Magdalen leaning her right liand upon a fkull, after S. Gae- 

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

 of Venus (landing on a globe, w ith various virtues and vices 

 perfonilied, very neatly finilhed, and marked M. Greuttr 

 inv. etfec. 1587, in fmall folio. " The Fall of Phaeton," 

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

 Dellruftion of Troy," after Lanfranc, and the magnih- 

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

 ter in concert with Lucas V<n-llerman, a large print of the 

 frieze form, engraved on fevcral plates. 



As Jean Frederic, the fon of Muttliew -Greuter, was born 

 at Rome, and lived and died in Italy, our account of him 

 will be found under Italian' School of Engravers. 



Matthias Kager was born at Munich in the year 1566, and 

 died at Augiburgin 1634. He iludied in Italy, and befidc 

 ranking higii among the hillorical painters of his time, \vasan 

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

 with the graver, though iometmies vvitii the admixture of 

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

 ners of a German court, induced him to quit that of Bavaria, 

 and he became a citizen and finally a burgonialler of Augi- 



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

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

 dated i6lo. " St. John Baptiling Chrill in the river Jor- 

 dan," both of the folio fize, and from conipoiitions by hxfr\- 

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

 picture, and in 410. and " St. Francis furrounded by the 

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

 are appearing in the Clouds,'' a middling-lized upright from 

 P. Remigius Bozzulo. 



Of Adam Elfheimer, furnamed Adam of Frankfort, who 

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

 fpoken. Sec El.*liElMEli. 



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 Ilyle of engraving on that of 

 Fraiicifco Villamena. He handled the graver, which was the 

 fole inilrument of his art, with boldnefs, freedom, and facility, 

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

 reft and hard. 



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

 Baptill," on twelve upright folio plates, after Andrea del 

 Sarto, with theportrait ot the p;iiiiter prefixed, and dedicated 

 to Cofmo de Medicis, dated 161S. "The Lall Supper," in 

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

 Family from Egypt,'' where the infant is tmbraciiig Jeiu's 

 Chrill, after F. Bigio, alfo in folio. " The iniant Saviour 

 bleding the little St. John," after the fame painter. And 

 " A Prince on a Tribunal, furrounded by divers Statefincn,'' 

 after Laufranco, and infcrihed "Vox niihi." 



Cruger has alfo engiaven fome portraits after Gabriel 

 Waver, to which he iigns his nrnie Ditrich Cruger, by vvhicU 

 ChrilUan name lie is bell knowa in Italy. 



Theodore 



