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Last Name Sperling / Heckel

Given Name Catharina °

alt. Names C. S. ; née: Katharina Heckel ;

Marriage -> Hieronymus Sperling (1695-1777) ;

Children

Year born 1699 in Augsburg

Year died 1741

Place of death Augsburg

Father's occupation silversmith Michael Heckel (about 1656-1722) in Augsburg

Relatives

Education drawing & painting lessons by her father

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Johann Jacob Scheuchzer: Physica Sacra (Augsburg 1731-35, pl. in vol. 2 1733) ; Johann Andreas Pfeffel the Elder (1674-1748) ; engr. -> Philipp G. Harder: Biblische Vorstellungen Alt- & Neuen Testaments (no date, w. pl. based on her drawings) ;
Cosmus Conrad Cuno: Observationes durch dessen verfertigte Microscopia deren unterschiedlichen Insecten nebst andern unsichtbaren Kleinigkeiten (Augsburg 1734, reprint w. introd. by Armin Geuss, Marburg 1976)

Patronage

Collaborators draughtsman >-Johann Daniel Preißler for Scheuchzers Physica Sacra ; Johann Melchior Füssli ; Johann Christoph Steinberger ; w. draughtsman -> E. Baeck & engr. -> J.G. Merz for Cuno: Observationes in dessen Microscopia ... 1734

Techniques natural history and minature oil painting, drawing, and copperplate engraving ; also portraiture

Sample(s) http://art.findartinfo.com/art.asp?i=170&p=30 ; http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/2962695 ;

Archival sources http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000273_00405-00.html ;

Published sources Hans Krauss: Berühmte Bilder, Konstanz (1984) ; AKL online ; Bénézit 6 2006: 1294 ; Bryan & Williamson 3 1904: 26 ; Füssli 1779: 309 ; Lipowsky 1 1810: 112 ; Nagler 6 1838: 28 ; ThB XVI 1923: 208-9 ; Schmidt-Liebich 2005: 184-85 ; von Stetten 1 1779: 335 ; Woods & Fürstenwald (1984: 48) ;

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