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Last Name Merian

Given Name Caspar

alt. Names C. M. ; Kaspar / Gaspard ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1627 Frankfurt am Main or Basel

Year died 1686

Place of death Vinwarden, Holland

Father's occupation copper engraver ->Matthaeus Merian the Elder (1593-50), mother Maria Magdalena, née de Bry

Relatives halfsister -> Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & brother Matthaeus Merian the younger (1621-87 http://viaf.org/viaf/9861272), both illustrator & engr.

Education

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Matthaeus Merian et al. (eds.) Topographia Germaniae & Theatrum Europaeum; Wahrmund Jocoserius, pseud.: Wol-geschliffener Narren-Spiegel, 1710 ; John Jonston (1603-1675): Historiae naturalis de avibus libri VI, 1657

Patronage

Collaborators wiht his father ->Matthaeus Merian the Elder (1593-1550) ; with his sister-> Sybilla Merian ; -> Bartholomäus Kilian (1630-1696) in Frankfurt ; draughtsman ->Clemens Beuttler ;

Techniques topographical drawing, copperplate engraving, and painting ; hand-coloring

Sample(s) www.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/A/Merian,+Caspar

Archival sources https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D118581074

Published sources AKL ; Nürnberger Künsterlex. ; Wolfgang Klötzer (ed.): Frankfurter Biographie (Frankfurt 1996, vol. 2) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 2131-2135 ;

other Active in Paris, Nuremberg, and since 1650 in Frankfurt; mostly known for his illustrations in Topographia Germaniae & Theatrum Europaeum.; he lived since 1672 in Wertheim, since 1677 in Holland in a community of Labadistes.

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