Johann Franz Ermels
Illustration — Landscape with staffage by Johann Franz Ermels Johann Franz Ermels (1641 – December 1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch. He resided at Nuremberg, and painted for the church of St. Sebald in that city a picture of the Resurrection; he was more successful, however, as a painter of landscapes, in which he imitated the style of Jan Both.
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Johann Franz Ermels
Johann Franz Ermels · Public domain
- Born
- 1641 · Cologne.
- Died
- 1693 · Nuremberg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- landscape
- Languages
- German
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Born at Cologne in 1641, died in Nuremberg in 1693.
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Johann Franz Ermels (1621 – 1693) is described as an engraver, etcher, draughtsman, painter and printmaker in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. Johann Franz Ermels was born in 1621 and died in 1693.
The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Johann Franz Ermels is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Bavarian State Painting Collections.
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Johann Franz Ermels was born in Cologne, Germany, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. Johann Franz Ermels died in Nuremberg, Germany, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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