Johann Gottlieb Prestel
Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations
Donkey
Cows
Dying Epaminondas
View of the Grotto by Heilbrunn, near Salzburg
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Frankfurt am Main, Sachsenhäuser Warte
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Johann Gottlieb Prestel or Johann Amadeus Prestel (born November 18, 1739 Grönenbach near Memmingen, † October 5, 1808 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German engraver and painter.
After only a short education Prestel went to a carpenter in his hometown in teaching. During his training, he distinguished himself by his artistic abilities. As a journeyman he went to the obligatory "rolling" and came in 1760 at age 21 to Venice.
There he made the acquaintance of Giuseppe Nogari who accepted him as a student. Later Prestel changed with recommendation Nogaris to Jacques Wagner. In the years 1767-1770 lived and worked in Rome Prestel. There studied (and copied) he most often the masters of antiquity; but also by the works of Pompeo Batoni he was influenced.
In the spring of 1770 Prestel returned to Germany and settled as a freelance artist in Nuremberg. In 1775 he accepted the offer Johann Caspar Lavater and went to Zurich to stand for these various commissions, mostly portraits.
Later Prestel returned to Nuremberg, where he mimicked drawings of famous masters in engraving and later also in color. Less in his own creativity in these replicas is its strength and importance.
Prestel was with the coming of Nuremberg graphic artist Katharina Maria Prestel, born in hell (Nuremberg, 1747 - London 1794) married, with whom he created extensive portfolios with reproductions of master drawings.
1793 Prestel went to Frankfurt, where he died at the age of almost 69 years on 5 October 1808
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