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Last Name Küffner

Given Name Paul

alt. Names P. K. ; Kueffner / Küfner ;

Marriage 1. Dorothea Adelmann (1xxx-1748) in 1741 ; 2. Anna Maria Beck (1xxx-1777) in 1749

Children 2 = 1 son, 1 daughter (1st marriage)

Year born 1713 in Nuremberg

Year died 1786

Place of death Nuremberg

Father's occupation grocer & salt dealer Paulus Küffner

Relatives fathers-in-law Johann Adelmann grocer & Johann Beck beef butcher

Education

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761): Allgemeines Blumen, Kräuter Frucht Gartenbuch (1750) ; Jacob Christian Schaeffer (1718-1790) ; Johann Christian Daniel Schreber (1739-1810) ;

Patronage

Collaborators artist Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761) ; engraver A. Hoffer ; engraver J. C. Pemsel ; engraver J. C. Claussner ; engraver J. A. Eisenmann ; engraver G. P. Trautner ; engraver J. Tyroff ;

Techniques cartographical, botanical, animal, and natural painting, drawing, typography, and copperplate engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources

Published sources AKL ; ThB 22 1928: 50; NKL ; Nissen. Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 2230-36, 3629 & 3748 ;

other active as engraver 1745-86, also as grocer 1751-86; natural history illustration & maps; organist, composer

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