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Last Name Decker

Given Name Peter Paul

alt. Names P. D. ; Paul Decker the Younger / Paulus / Peter Decker ;

Marriage Walburga Meuler in 1750

Children

Year born 1685 Nuremberg

Year died 1742

Place of death Nuremberg

Father's occupation wire drawer Hans Decker

Relatives brother: engraver Paul Decker the Elder (1677-1813); father-in-law Johann Meuler, wire drawer;

Education pupil of Daniel Preißler at Nuremberg Painters Academy; drawing from brother Paul Decker Sr.

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Johann Christoph Volckamer (1644-1720):Hesperidum Norimbergensium 1708-13 & Continuatio 1714; CJ Trew

Patronage 1739-42 was director of Malerakademie Nürnberg

Collaborators brother Paul Decker the Elder;

Techniques drawing; painting; copperplate engraving, mezzotint

Sample(s) http://www.philographikon.com/hesperides.html

Archival sources Erlangen University Library (Rhabarbarum for CJTrew);

Published sources AKL25 2000:131; NKL; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Franz Hodes/Ernst Berninger: Ad Bibliothecam Senckenberg 1968:46f,figs2f.

other Sulzbach; Bayreuth

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