Mattheus Merian I
| Name: | Mattheus Merian |
| Name variants: | Matthäus Merian |
| Gender: | male |
| Born: | Basel |
| Died: | Bad Schwalbach |
| Father: | Walter Merian (1558 - 1617) |
| Mother: | Margarete Falkner (1557 - 1629) |
Marriages:
- Maria Magdalena de Bry (1598 - 1645), Oppenheim
- Johanna Catharina Heim (? - 1690), Frankfurt am Main
Children:
- Susanne Barbara Merian (1619 - 1645)
- Mattheus Merian II (1621 - 1687)
- Casper Merian (1627 - 1686)
- Maria Magdalena Merian (1629 - 1666)
- Joachim Merian (1635 - 1701)
- Maria Sybilla Merian (1647 - 1717)
Occupations:
Occupational addresses:
- Straatsburg (From until circa )
- Nancy (From circa until circa )
- Basel (-)
- Parijs (From circa until circa )
- Nederland (-)
- Augsburg (-)
- Stuttgart (-)
- Oppenheim (-)
- Basel (-)
- Frankfurt am Main (From circa until circa )
Attributes
| Category | Attribute | Value | Date start | Date end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject of painting | Geografie en cosmografie | topografische afbeeldingen | ||
| Subject of painting | Landschap | landschappen | ||
| Subject of painting | Stads- en dorpsgezichten | stadsgezichten |
Relations
| Relation | Modifier | Date start | Date end |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artistic | |||
| collaborated with Anthonie Mirou, alias: Antoine Mirou | |||
| Education and training | |||
| master of Hendrick van der Borcht III | certain | ||
| master of Wenzel Hollar, alias: Wenzeclaus Hollar | certain | ||
| master of Bartholomäus Kilian | certain | ||
| master of Melchior Küsel I | certain | ||
| pupil of Dietrich Meyer I | certain | ||
| pupil of Christoffel Murrer | certain | ||
References
External biographical records
- http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/thes/p070197741
- http://ta.sandrart.net/-person-185
- http://viaf.org/viaf/32000392
- http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500010137
- http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57968
- https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31076425
- https://rkd.nl/artists/55358
- urn:rijksmuseum:people:RM0001.PEOPLE.44704
Secondary sources
- Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
- Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 24, Leipzig: Engelmann (1930), 413
- Lilien, Otto M., Jacob Christoph Le Blon, 1667-1741: inventor of three- and four colour printing, [Bibliothek des Buchwesens 9], Stuttgart: Hiersemann (1985)
- Van Groesen, Michiel, The De Bry collection of voyages (1590-1634): editiorial stategy and the representations of the overseas world (2 vols.), s.l.: s.n. (2007), (Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Haak, B., Hollandse schilders in de gouden eeuw, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff-Landshoff (1984)
- Wüthrich, Lucas Heinrich, Die Handzeichnungen von Matthaeus Merian d. Ae.: unter Berücksichtigung der fraglichen und falschen Zuschreibungen sowie der Gemälde, nebst einem Exkurs über die Werke der Monogrammisten MM um 1610 (Michael Müller II oder Matthaeus Merian?), Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag (1963)
- Wüthrich, Lukas Heinrich, Das Druckgraphischer Werk von Mattheus Merian d. Ae., Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag; Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe (1966-1996), (Vier Bänden)
- Turner, Jane (ed.) The dictionary of art (34 vols.), London: Macmillan; New York: Grove (1996)