Discover painter, etcher, mezzotinter Benjamin von Block

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: Blockh, Benjamin von
Blok, Benjamin von
Blockhen, Benjamin von
Blok, Benjamin

Qualifications: painter, etcher, mezzotinter

Nationality/school: German

Born: Lübeck 1631-10/1631-10-04
baptized 4 October 1631

Deceased: Regensburg 1689-10-19
buried 12 October 1689 at the Petersfriedhof

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Daniel Block and brother of Daniel Friedrich, a canon, and the painters Emanuel and Adolf Block. He married to the paintress Anna Katharina Fischer in 1664.

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).

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Halle (Holzminden) 1653
Dresden 1655
traveled through Desden and Vienna to Italy for Count Franz von Nádasdy-Fogáras
Wenen (stad)
Rome 1659
stayed also in Siena, Venice and Florence (Sandrart)
Siena (plaats)
Venetië
Florence
Halle (Holzminden)
Neurenberg 1665 - 1670
Regensburg 1670
lived in Regensburg untill his death, visits to Vienna
Wenen (stad)
Regensburg 1689

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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.: Block, Daniel
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Literature

Sandrart/Peltzer 1675/1925 , p. 344-346
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 258-259 (as: Benjamin Blok (based on Sandrart))
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 122
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 235, 237
Hollstein German (1954-) , vol. 4 (s.a.), p. 120-124
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 31
Saur 1992- , vol. 11 (1997), p. 536
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

M. Krieger, 'Benjamin von Block (1631–1689). Ein Porträtmaler des 17. Jahrhunderts in seinen Beziehungen zu Ansbach', Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins für Mittelfranken 85 (1969-1970), p. 77–103

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Archive location: fichescollectie Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
Project: Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Deutsche Biographie

Permalink: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/9089

Creation date: 1991-11-21; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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