Johann Daniel Preisler ( German: Johann Daniel Preißler ; 1666, Nuremberg - 1737, ibid.) - German painter, draftsman, teacher, academician, professor. painting theorist of the second half of the XVII - beginning of the XVIII century.
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| Date of Birth | January 17, 1666 |
| Place of Birth | Nuremberg |
| Date of death | October 13, 1737 (71 years old) |
| A place of death | Nuremberg |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
The representative of a famous family of German artists, immigrants from Bohemia . The son of the artist and portrait painter Daniel Preisler (1627-1665). The father of artists and engravers Johann Justin , Georg Martin and Johann Martin Preysler.
He studied under stepfather Popp and I. Murrera. From 1688 to 1696 he lived and worked in Italy, in Rome and Venice . In 1705 he became president of the drawing school in Nuremberg. In 1716 he founded the Zeichenschule (drawing school) for the children of the poor, which was very successful, which under his leadership turned into the Nuremberg Academy of Arts , for which he published a collection of drawings.
Creativity
Author of portraits , nude paintings, drawings and murals, theoretical works on the history of painting, in particular, Die durch Theorie erfundene Practical oder Gründlich verfasste Reguln deren man sich als einer Anleitung zu berühmter Künstlere Zeichen-Wercke bestens bedien . His work on the theory of painting was translated into several other languages and served as textbooks for students until the 19th century. According to them, for example, studied Solomon Gessner .
In 1721, Johann-Daniel Preisler began to publish textbooks, which later became his Die durch Theorie erfundene Practic and a number of scientific works, in particular, on anatomy. Preisler’s manual (the Russian name is “Fundamental Rules, or a Brief Guide to Drawing Art”) was highly appreciated by contemporaries. According to this textbook, they studied drawing at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts in the 18th-19th centuries.
He also published an academic work on the art of ornament and color drawing (1725), landscape drawings (1739) and others.
Of his famous works - the figures of the four apostles on the ceiling of the Nuremberg church of St. Aegidius.
Notes
Literature
- Preisler // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.