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Details of this illustrator << Previous Next >> | Last Name | Kraus | | Given Name | Georg Melchior | | alt. Names | G. M. K. ; | | Marriage | | | Children | | | Year born | 1737 in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, nowaday Germany | | Year died | 1806 | | Place of death | Weimar, Saxony, nowadays Germany | | Father's occupation | pub owners Johann Georg Kraus and Cornelia Kraus, born Paulsen | | Relatives | | | Education | painter apprentice of Johann Heinrich Tischbein the elder at the Kassel court; engr. apprentice of Johann Georg Wille in Paris; | | Country of Activity | Germany | | Worked for | Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra: Erfahrvngen / Erfahrungen vom Innern der Gebirge (Dessau & Leipzig 1785) ; Beschreibung und Abbildung der Poissarden in Paris ; Planches pour deux pendants. Le Chaudronnier, Le Raccommodeur de fayence (Paris 17xx) ; in 1784, G.M.K. accompanied his friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Italy and assited him in making geological drawings ; | | Patronage | Kassel court of land grave Friedrich II ; | | Collaborators | draughtsman -> F. H. Spörer ; engraver -> Johann Capieux ; | | Techniques | geological, geodesic, technical, and topographical copper engraving ; hand-colouring | | Sample(s) | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Melchior_Kraus#/media/File:1784_Einhornh%C3%B6hle_im_Harz,_Zeichnung_von_Georg_Melchior_Kraus.jpg | | Archival sources | www.mineralogy.eu/bookarchive/t/Trebra_1785.htm | | Published sources | Maler Georg Melchior Kraus (1733-1806): Ausstellung des Goethe-Museums Düsseldorf, Anton-u.-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung vom 28. August-30. Oktober 1983 im Goethe-Museum, Düsseldorf & vom 13. Mai - 17. Juni 1984 in der Stadtbücherei Stuttgart ; | | other | German painter and etcher, pedagogist and publisher.
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