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Last Name Wicker
Given Name Johann Heinrich
alt. Names J. H. W. ;
Marriage engraver Anna Rosina Weitz (1728-1806)
Children
Year born 1723 Frankfurt am Main, Hessen
Year died 1786
Place of death Frankfurt am Main, Hessen
Father's occupation clockmaker Georg Daniel Wicker
Relatives
Education clockmaking from father; self-taught in engraving, art; 1739 engravers apprentice
Country of Activity Germany
Worked for entomologist Johann Christian Gerning (1745-1802); Johann Christian Senckenberg; bot.med. med. Johann Jacob Reichard ; Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle (1734-1814) ;
Patronage Senckenbergische Stiftung
Collaborators wife; artists: d'Abel;
Techniques botanical, natural, and entomological gold, silver, brass, steel, metal, copperplate engraving, needle, ink drawing
Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurt_Am_Main-Portraits-Johann_Christian_Gerning.jpg
Archival sources 78 Blumenbildern aus Senckenbergischen Botanischen Garten, in Senckenberg Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main)
Published sources AKL; Fuessli 1820 v.2 pt.11: 5080, ThB35 1942; Franz Hodes/Ernst Berninger: Ad Bibliothecam Senckenberg 1968:47f, fig.4 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 1300 ;
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