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Last Name Preissler

Given Name Johann Martin

alt. Names J. M. P. ; Joh. M. Preisler / Preißler ;

Marriage

Children painter Johann Georg Preissler (1757-1831)

Year born 1715 in Nuremberg

Year died 1794

Place of death Copenhagen (Lyngby)

Father's occupation painter ->Johann Daniel Preissler (1666-1737), since 1704 director of Nuremberg's painter academy

Relatives grandfather Daniel Preissler / Preisler (1627-1665), brothers Georg Martin (1700-54), Valentin Daniel (1717-65), ) all painters ; Johann Georg Pintz

Education by Laurent Cars in Paris

Country of Activity Denmark

Worked for Johann Jacob Scheuchzer: Physica Sacra (Augsburg 1735, vol. 4) ; Johann Andreas Pfeffel d. Ä. (1674-1748) ;

Patronage since 1744 Court engraver of Danish King in Copenhagen ;

Collaborators draughtsman ->Johann Daniel Preißler for Scheuchzers Physica Sacra (1732-35) ; Johann Melchior Füssli ; Johann Christoph Steinberger ;

Techniques topographical drawing and copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) www.artnet.de/K%C3%BCnstler/johann+martin-preisler/auktionsresultate ;

Archival sources http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/2962695 ;

Published sources ADB 26 1888: 550-2 ; Franz Friedrich Leitschuh: Die Familie Preisler und Markus Tuscher. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kunst im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Leipzig 1886) ; Hans Krauss: Berühmte Bilde (Konstanz 1984) ; AKL online ; Bénézit 11 2006: 353 ; Bryan & Stanley 186: 600 ; Geck 1982 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Germany and France, since 1744 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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