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Last Name Asner / Assner

Given Name Franz

alt. Names F. A. ; Franz Asner / Aßner/ Assner ;

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Year born 1742 (not 1746 as sometimes claimed) in Vienna

Year died 1810 (not 1814 as sometimes claimed)

Place of death Vienna, Austria

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Education

Country of Activity Austria

Worked for Karl Meidinger: Icones piscium Austriae indigenorum quos collegit vivisque coloribus expressos edidit Carolus Lib. Baro a Meidinger ; Carl Scherffer: Institutionum mechanicarum pars prima, sive de motu, et æquilibrio corporum solidorum, conscripta in usum tironum a P. Carolo Scherffer ; Martin Dobrizhoffer: Historia de Abiponibus equestri, heliosaque Paraquariae natione (Vienna 1784) ; Fraujas de Saint-Fond, transl. by Abbé
Uebelacker: Beschreibung der Versuche mit der Luftkugel (1781); Voltaire: Denkwürdigkeiten der Natur (1786) ;

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Techniques anthropological, anthropological, ethnological, geographical, zoological, ichthyological & technical drawing, engr, & etching

Sample(s) https://pictures.abebooks.com/POMPLUN/22189192327_3.jpg ; www.ornamentalprints.eu/sdb/do/detail.state?inventarnr=KI%202569%20%20F-90%20S-8%20%20Z-8

Archival sources http://www.ornamentalprints.eu/sdb/do/detail.state?inventarnr=KI%202569%20%20F-90%20S-8%20%20Z-8&langSelect=en

Published sources Kury 2014: 26 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78

other Active in Vienna, and known under both names: Asner as well as Assner. See also: http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01205408 ; www.artnet.de/K%C3%BCnstler/franz-asner/auktionsresultate

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