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Last Name Nitschman

Given Name David Renatus

alt. Names D. R. N. ; Nitschmann ;

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Year born 1748 in Sareptic Colony, Moravia

Year died 1777 ?

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Country of Activity Czech Republic

Worked for Peter Simon Pallas: Icones insectorum (1781-98) ; Pallas: Samlungen hist. Nachrichten mongol. Völker (1776) ;

Patronage Catherine the Great of Russia ;

Collaborators engraver Johann Nussbiegel ; engraver Jakob Sturm ;

Techniques entomological and ethnographical drawing, pen, and watercolour ;

Sample(s) http://masterpieces.asemus.museum/masterpiece/detail.nhn?objectId=11194 ;

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Published sources Beelen 2012: 26g & 49 ;

other Further Place of Activity: Russia. Moravian brother of the "Sareptische Kolonie" accompanied Pallas as expedition artist from central Urals to West Siberia and Caspian valley, Mongolia 1768-74.

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