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in 1720. After spending several years working in Hamburg, he moved to Copenhagen with several other of his fellow artists. Some of these included:

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and

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. In 1755, Haas was appointed official engraver for the

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. In addition to a large amount of small portraits of contemporary and deceased people (including 15 Zealand bishops), he produced works for ''The Danish Atlas'' and vignettes of

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's travels. In Hamburg, he had married Anna Rosine Fritsch, the daughter of an acquaintance engraver. They had four children. Three of his sons,

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, and Peter were all engravers. Haas was buried at St. Peter's church cemetery.

References

"Haas, Jonas"
(F.J.Meier). In: Carl Frederik Bricka (ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon, p.438 (1st edition, 1892)
"Haas, Jonas"
(Otto Andrup). In: Ulrich Thieme, Fred. C. Willis (ed.): '' Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 15: Gresse–Hanselmann''. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 390 1720s births 1775 deaths 18th-century Danish engravers 18th-century Danish printmakers Artists from Nuremberg German emigrants to Denmark {{engraver-stub