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Last Name Weissenhahn

Given Name Georg Michael

alt. Names G. M. W. ; Georg Michael / Georges Michel‏ Weissenhahn / Weißenhahn ;

Marriage yes

Children 6, among them the older son Johann Michael who also became copperplate engraver ;

Year born 1741 or 1744 in Schillingsfürst bei Rothenburg o.T

Year died 1795

Place of death Munich

Father's occupation

Relatives Franz Xaver Jungwierth (1720-1790) (father-in-law)

Education art student of Georg Sigmund Roesch (1710 c. - 1766 after) in Munich

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Der Wurm oder Starenberger See (1750) ; Grundris der Churfürstl. Haupt- u. Residenz-Stadt München (1782) ; William Bailey: Die Beförderung der Künste, der Manufakturen und der Handelsschaft (1756) ;

Patronage since 1770 member of the art academy in Munich ;

Collaborators

Techniques geographical, topographical, physical, and technical copperplate engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources BNBF: Recueil.Oeuvre de G.M.W. ; Bayerische Staatsbibl.-Altkarten ;

Published sources AKL ; TH-B 35: 340 ; Personenlexika Baader/Lipowsky : Franz Schiermeier: Stadtatlas München; Horst Bredekamp: Antikensehnsucht und Maschinenglauben (Berlin 2000): 97;

other Bavarian artist and copperplate engraver, for a portrait of him see http://portraits.hab.de/werk/1206/ see also https://personenlexika.digitale-sammlungen.de/Lexika/Wei%C3%9Fenhahn,_Georg_Michael_(GND_128655712) .

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