Jacob von Sandrart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German engraver
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Jacob von Sandrart
- Jacob von Sandrart (3 May 1630, Frankfurt am Main — 15 August 1708, Nuremberg) was a German engraver primarily active in Nuremberg. At age ten Sandrart obtained his artistic training from his better-known uncle Joachim von Sandrart in Amsterdam.
- After spending time in Danzig and Regensburg, he married Regina Christina Eimart, daughter of the engraver Georg Christoph Eimart the elder, on 10 June 1654.
- The couple settled in Nuremberg in 1656 and remained there for the rest of their lives.
- His daughter Susanne Maria von Sandrart was also an artist and engraver. Sandrart was a very prolific artist; over 400 engravings from his hand are extant.
- He was best known as a portraitist of prominent contemporary citizens of Nuremberg, as an engraver of maps, and as an illustrator of the literary works of Nuremberg writers, especially Sigmund von Birken.
- Today Sandrart is best remembered as the founder and first director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts (est.
- 1662).
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