Discover print artist, bookseller, publisher Matthäus Merian (I)

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Matthäus Merian (I)

male / Swiss, German

print artist, bookseller, publisher, painter, draftsperson

Qualifications: print artist, bookseller, publisher, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: Swiss, German

Born: Basel (Switzerland) 1593-09-22

Deceased: Bad Schwalbach 1650-06-19

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Walter Merian (1558-1617) and Margarete Falkner (1557-1629); married 1) in Oppenheim in 1618 to Maria Magdalena de Bry (1598 - 1645) and 2) in Frankfurt on 27 February 1646 to Johanna Catharina Heim (died 1690); father of Susanne Barbara Merian (169-1645), Mattäus Merian II, Caspar Merian and Maria Sybilla Merian

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

This person/entity in other databases

14 hits in RKDimages as artist
13 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
20 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1608 - 1650
active c. 1608-1650

Active in

Straatsburg 1610 - 1613
Nancy 1614
Basel (Zwitserland) 1615
Parijs 1615
Noordelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1616
Gerson 1942
Augsburg 1616
Stuttgart 1616
Oppenheim 1617 - 1619
Basel (Zwitserland) 1620 - 1623
Frankfurt am Main 1623 - 1649

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Brentel, Friedrich
Meyer, Dietrich (I)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Borcht, Hendrik van der (II)
Borcht, Hendrik van der (III)
Hollar, Wenzel
Küsel, Melchior (I)
Merian, Caspar
Meyer, Rudolf (1605-1638)
Follower of: Rieckes, Christoph
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Capsia, Margareta

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), still life, Christian religious scene

Product: devotional print

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 13 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 276, vol. 3 (1721), p. 220 (as: Math. Nierian/Mathesu Merian)
Brun 1905-1917
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 24 (1930), p. 413
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 7, p. 343
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 264, 356
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 206
Jost et al. 1998 , vol. 2, p. 708-709
Van der Coelen 1998 , passim
Verheggen 2006 , p. 257-258
Van Groesen 2008
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

J.W. Enschedé, ‘Een gelijktijdige waardering van Rembrandt’s etsen in het buitenland’, Oud-Holland 31 (1913), p. 132-134
J.H. Scholte, ‘Eengelijktijdige waardering van Rembrandt’s Etsen in het Buitenland’, Oud-Holland 31 (1915), p. 91-96
J. Rutgers, 'Sijn' kunst-faem over 't spits der Alpen heen gevlogen? Rembrandts naam en faam in Italië in de zeventiende eeuw', Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis (2003), no. 1-2, p. 2-19
B. Bakker, recensie van Diefenbacher 2002, Simiolus 31 (2004-'05), p. 255-259
S. Donahue Kuretsky, 'The face in the landschape: a puzzling print by Matthäus Merian the Elder', in: A. Golahny e.a., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 219-232
D. Vlasblom, 'Naakte heidenen. Uitgeverij De Bry gaf de niet-Europese wereld stereotiep vorm', NRC Handelsblad 21/13 mei 2007, p. 47 (bijlage Wetenschap en Onderwijs)

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Project: Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-02-01; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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