Prospect und Perspectiv der Gräffl. Fugerischen Lustgarten zu Hauthaussen nechst München wie selber von der seiten des Eingangs an zu sehen. 26.

Title

Prospect und Perspectiv der Gräffl. Fugerischen Lustgarten zu Hauthaussen nechst München wie selber von der seiten des Eingangs an zu sehen. 26.

Description

View showing the pleasure garden of Haidhausen near Munich. After Matthias Diesel, engraved by Johann August Corvinus and published by J. Wolff.

ca. 1717

Artist

Wolff (1663-1724)

Jeremias Wolff (born 1663 in Augsburg, died 1724 Augsburg) was an Augsburg engraver and publisher. From a small engraving shop, the trained watchmaker built the largest art publishing house of the first half of the 18th century and distributed popular engravings. Most of the prints were illustrated thesis sheets that were sold throughout Europe. The publishing house employed the best engravers of his time. However, on most engravings, only the name of the publisher Wolff was recorded. At Wolff's instigation, the Imperial City Art Academy was founded in Augsburg in 1710. The publishing house was continued by his student and son-in-law Johann Balthasar Probst (1673–1750), an engraver and publisher, and later by his sons under the name Jeremias Wolff Erben. Quelle: Wikipedia

Historical Description

Munich- Munchen, the name of the city is derived from the Old/Middle High German term Munichen, meaning "by the monks". It derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town of Munich; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat of arms. Munich was first mentioned in 1158. From 1255 the city was seat of the Bavarian Dukes. Black and gold — the colours of the Holy Roman Empire — have been the city's official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian, when it was an imperial residence. Following a final reunification of the Wittelsbachian Duchy of Bavaria, previously divided and sub-divided for more than 200 years, the town became the country's sole capital in 1506. Catholic Munich was a cultural stronghold of the Counter-Reformation and a political point of divergence during the resulting Thirty Years' War, but remained physically untouched despite an occupation by the Protestant Swedes; as the townsfolk would rather open the gates of their town than risk siege and almost inevitable destruction. Like wide parts of the Holy Roman Empire, the area recovered slowly economically. Having evolved from a duchy's capital into that of an electorate (1623), and later a sovereign kingdom (1806), Munich has been a centre of arts, culture and science since the early 19th century.