Meno Haas
Meno Haas aka Johann Meno Haas (6 April 1752 – 16 October 1833) was a German-born copperplate engraver, miniaturist, illustrator and painter. He was the brother of George and Peter Haas, and father of Jean Meno Haas. Meno was the son and student of the engraver Jonas Haas.
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Meno Haas
Meno Haas (1752-1833) - engraver · Carte de Visite Photo - of Painting · Public domain
- Born
- 6 April 1752
- Birthplace
- Hamburg
- Died
- 16 October 1833
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Education
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
- Languages
- German
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Biography
Biography
He also trained under Johann Georg Preisler at the Academy of Copenhagen
Meno Haas after?Wolf - Portrait of a stallion "Melilcoma"
Meno Haas (1752-1833)
Print showing Frederick II, King of Prussia, on horseback, facing left.
Meno Haas (1752-1833) - engraver
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 6 April 1752 • Birthplace — Hamburg • Died — 16 October 1833 • Place of death — Berlin • Style — copperplate engraving • Illustration — Stallion "Melilcoma", engraving by Meno Haas • Illustration — Plate of Cyperaceae from Rottbøll's "Descriptionum et iconum rariores"
Documentary record
Meno Haas (30 May 1752 – 16 October 1833) was a copperplate engraver, “Miniaturist” and illustrator. Meno Haas was born on 30 May 1752 in Hamburg. Meno Haas died on 16 October 1833 in Berlin.
Life
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, 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. His wife, Birgitte Cathrine born Hortulan, was the fifth of the Holberg actor Marcus Ulsøe Hortulan's seven children.
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded places of activity of Meno Haas are Berlin and Copenhagen.
Selected works
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, 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 (1798) • His queen Louise, after H. Plötz • Danish actor Hans Christian Knudsen, after Jens Juel (1800) • Frederick II on horseback, after L. Wolf (1808) • Christian Vilhelm Duntzfelt, the Danish merchant, after Christian Horneman (1809)
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Meno Haas was born in Hamburg.
Birthplace
Meno Haas died in Berlin.
Deathplace
Hamburg.
Birth place
Berlin.
Death place
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).
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