Meno Haas aka Johann Meno Haas (6 April 1752 Hamburg – 16 October 1833 Berlin) was a German-born copperplate engraver, miniaturist, illustrator and painter. He was the brother of George and Peter Haas (1754–1804), and father of Jean Meno Haas. Meno was the son and student of the engraver

Jonas Haas Jonas Haas (1720 – 10 April 1775) was a German-born Danish engraver. Haas was born in Nuremberg in 1720. After spending several years working in Hamburg, he moved to Copenhagen with several other of his fellow artists. Some of these included: J ...

(1720–1775). He also trained under Johann Georg Preisler (1757–1831) at the '' Academy of Copenhagen''

Life

Haas was only a year old when his family moved to Copenhagen. There he spent much time at the Academy, listening to his father and Johan Martin Preisler's teaching. In 1778 he became an engraver attached to the University. In 1782 he went to Paris, moving there with his younger brother Johan-Jakob-Georg Haas (1756–1817), another engraver. There he worked under Nicolas de Launay. In 1786 he accepted a commission to copy art works in the Berlin Gallery and became a member of the Academy of Berlin in 1793. Haas worked for a number of booksellers, engraving plates by contemporary German painters.''Don Quixote Engravers' Biographies''
/ref> His wife, Birgitte Cathrine born Hortulan (*1758), was the fifth of the Holberg actor Marcus Ulsøe Hortulan's seven children.

Publications with engravings by Meno Haas

*"''Icones plantarum selectarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis cum descriptionibus et colendi ratione''" – H.F. Link & F. Otto (Berlin 1820).
"''Descriptionum et iconum rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas illustrantium.conscriptus a Christiano Friis''"
– Rottbøll, Christen Friis (1727–1797). Abildgaard, Nicolai,(1743–1809). Haas, Georg, (1756–1817). Haas, Meno,(1752–1833). (Hafniae 1773) * Carsten Niebuhr, ''Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern'' (Kopenhagen, 1774).

Selected works

* Crown Prince Frederik and his companion at play (1771/2), after Peter Cramer and John Mandelberg *Illustrations and vignettes for Carsten Niebuhr's: "''Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien''", 1774–76 *Illustrations and vignettes for Pehr Forsskål's "''Icones Rerum Naturalium''", 1776 *Portrait of

Otto Friedrich Müller Otto Friedrich Müller, also known as Otto Friedrich Mueller (2 November 1730 – 26 December 1784) was a Danish naturalist and scientific illustrator. Biography Müller was born in Copenhagen. He was educated for the church, became tutor to a yo ...

, after Cornelius Høyer (1776) * Lorenz Spengler, after Cornelius Høyer (1776) *Engraving of members of the royal house (1777–79), including Crown Prince Frederik (VI) after Cornelius Høyer * Anne Colbiørnsen, after Erik Pauelsen (1780) * Rolf Krake, the legendary Danish king, and his men, after Erik Pauelsen (1782) *"'' Hagar's Repudiation''", after Anthonisz Flinck (1789) *The German federal princes, after Bernhard Rode (1793) * Frederick I of Prussia, after

Christian Horneman Christian Horneman (15 August 1765 – 7 March 1844) was a Danish miniature and pastels painter, mainly known for portraits. He was the father of the composer Emil Horneman and grandfather of C. F. E. Horneman, also a composer. Biography Horne ...

(1798) *His queen

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, after H. Plötz *Danish actor

Hans Christian Knudsen Hans Christian Knudsen (March 4, 1763 – March 4, 1816) was a Danish stage actor and opera singer. He was an elite actor of the Royal Danish Theatre in 1786–1816, known for his roles in theater comedy and opera performances. During the Battle ...

, after Jens Juel (1800) * Frederick II on horseback, after L. Wolf (1808) *

Christian Vilhelm Duntzfelt William Duntzfelt (8 September 1762 - 20 October 1809) was a Danish merchant and ship-owner. Early life Duntzfelt was born on 1762 in Negapatnam, then the capital of the Dutch Coromandel, to Johann Friedrich Düntzfeld (1725–1785), an engineer ...

, the Danish merchant, after Christian Horneman (1809)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haas, Meno German engravers German illustrators 1752 births 1833 deaths Artists from Hamburg Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni