1676 Joh. Sandrart, ‘Der Leuchter’, Candlestick, vignette, copper engraving,

‘Der Leuchter’, Candlestick

Decorative Master Engraving by Joh. Sandrart

20.6x15.9cm

Trimmed but with all margin extant.

Joachim von Sandrart was a German Baroque art-historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is most significant for his collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists the Teutsche Academie, published between 1675 and 1680.

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).