Johanna Sibylla Kraus (née Küsel; 1650 – 1717) was a German printmaker from

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

. Kraus was born in

as the daughter of

Melchior Küsel Melchior Küsel (1626, Augsburg – 1684, Augsburg) was a German engraver. Life According to Houbraken he made 24 engravings after Johann Wilhelm Baur of the Passion of Christ but also a series after Ovid.Johann Ulrich Kraus Johann Ulrich Kraus (also ''Krauss, Krauß'', 1655–1719) was an early German illustrator, engraver and publisher in Augsburg. He was a student of Melchior Küsel (1626- ca.1683), who was in turn a student of Matthäus Merian the Elder. Kra ...

, whom she married and continued to work with.

Gallery

Four designs of tapestries after

Charles Le Brun Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...

, copied from engravings by Sebastien Le Clerc: File:Tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons - avec les devises qvi les accompagnent and leur explication - Königliche französische Tapezereyen, oder überauss (14559403239).jpg, Fire File:Tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons - avec les devises qvi les accompagnent and leur explication - Königliche französische Tapezereyen, oder überauss (14742870961).jpg, Air File:Tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons - avec les devises qvi les accompagnent and leur explication - Königliche französische Tapezereyen, oder überauss (14743694154).jpg, Water File:Tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons - avec les devises qvi les accompagnent and leur explication - Königliche französische Tapezereyen, oder überauss (14559408608).jpg, Earth

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Johanna Sibylla Küsel
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