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Eberhard Kieser
Eberhard Kieser (December 2, 1583 in Kastellaun – November 1631, in Frankfurt am Main) was a German engraver and publisher. Personal Kieser was the son of a pastor. He learned the goldsmith's trade. In the early summer of 1609, through his marriage with Anna Christina Hoffmann, a painter's daughter, he received citizen's rights in Frankfurt am Main, worked as a goldsmith in Sachsenhausen and began to draw and engrave. From 1612 he illustrated and published books and produced illustrative prints in his publishing workshop with several engravers as assistants. Work His most important work is a Danse Macabre#Hans Holbein's woodcuts, Dance of Death after Hans Holbein the Younger, Holbein, consisting of 60 small-format etchings from 1617. Kieser is also known for the ''Thesaurus philopoliticus'' (German title: ''Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendiger Freund''), a collection of copperplate engravings with city views, which Kieser and Daniel Meisner (1585–1625), orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kastellaun
Kastellaun is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality. Geography Location The town lies in the eastern Hunsrück roughly equidistant from the Moselle, the Rhine and the Nahe. The town centre lies between a depression in the north and the plateau of the Hunsrück, over which runs ''Bundesstraße'' 327, the so-called ''Hunsrückhöhenstraße'' (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). Climate Yearly precipitation in Kastellaun amounts to 755 mm, which falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 53% of the German Weather Service's weather stations, lower figures recorded. The driest month is April. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.4 times what it is in April. Precipitation varies only slig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
