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Last Name Seutter
Given Name (Georg) Matthaeus
alt. Names G. M. S. ; George Matheus / Matthäus ;
Marriage 1: Maria Barbara Gaap (1681-1708) ; 2: Euphrosina Grießbeck (1689-1716) in 1709 ; 3: Magdalena Mitteregger (?- 1761) in 1717
Children 13 children, only four of them survived childhood: Euphrosina (1709-1784), Anna Sabina (1731-1782), Georg Matth. (b. 1710-?) and Alb.Carl (1722-1762)
Year born 1678 (NOT 1647) in Augsburg
Year died 1756 (?Or 1757 OR 1758?)
Place of death Augsburg
Father's occupation Augsburg-based goldsmith Matthäus Seutter (c.1640-1704)
Relatives engrav -> Christoph Gustav Kilian (son-in-law) ; engraver Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) (son-in-law) ; engr. -> Georg Balthasar Probst (son-in-law)
Education first apprentice to a brewer, then left his apprenticeship & moved to Nuremberg where he apprenticed as engraver under the tutelage ->Johann B. Homann
Country of Activity Germany
Worked for Atlas Novus (Augsburg c. 1735) ; Historia Circuli Bavarici (c. 1750) ; map "Japan" (Augsburg c. 1740) ;
Patronage
Collaborators
Techniques cartographical and topographical copperplate engraving ; map-making ; hand-colouring ;
Sample(s) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hannover_Matthaeus_Seutter_1745.jpg ; http://www.garwood-voigt.com/catalogues/H23878BavariaSeutter1.jpg ;
Archival sources www.vintage-maps.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=seutter&x=0&y=0 ;
Published sources C. J. Schüler: Die kartographierte Stadt, Paris 2011: 134f., 174-187, 242f.; Christian Sandler: M. S. & seine Landkarten. Ein Handbuch (2009) ; Diefenbacher, Heinz & Bach-Damaskinos 2002: 95 ; Walter 1994: plates 71 & 80 ; Focus 1993: 546 ;
other During the early 18th c, G. M. S. established his own independent cartographic publishing firm in Augsburg.
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