Matthias Pfenninger (1739 – 1813) was a

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draftsman and engraver. Around 1757 Pfenninger became a pupil with Johann Rudolf Holzhalb in Zurich, then with Emmanuel Eichel in

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. After the apprenticeship he went to

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, where he created copperplates for Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Elder and

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and the Bernese book printer and publisher Abraham Wagner. After 1770 he created as a freelance artist engravings with Swiss landscapes and portraits of well-known people.

Gallery

File:CH-NB - Bülach, Waldpartie - Collection Gugelmann - GS-GUGE-HUBER-JK-C-2.tif File:CH-NB - Lauterbrunnen, mit Staubbachfall - Collection Gugelmann - GS-GUGE-ABERLI-C-21.tif File:CH-NB - Aberli, Johann Ludwig, Maler und Radierer, 1723-1786 - Collection Gugelmann - GS-GUGE-PFENNINGER-C-3.tif File:CH-NB - Grindelwald, unterer Gletscher (Stand 1762) - Collection Gugelmann - GS-GUGE-ABERLI-C-22.tif File:Zentralbibliothek Solothurn - CHÛTE DEAU A BALSTHAL CANTON DE SOLEURE Dédié a Monsieur Henry Wuest Peintre Parson Amy et Serviteur - aa0145.tif

References

External links

Georg Kaspar Nagler: ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc''. vol. 11, p. 213
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pfenninger, Matthias 1739 births 1813 deaths 18th-century Swiss artists Swiss artists