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1755 - 1814. Known for: Document decoration-fraktur.
Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, an Easton, Pennsylvania Bible artist, created birth and baptismal certificates, called frakturs. The Andres family of Sussex County, West New Jersey were some of his most... Read full biography
Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, an Easton, Pennsylvania Bible artist, created birth and baptismal certificates, called frakturs. The Andres family of Sussex County, West New Jersey were some of his most active patrons, and for them and others he created art-rich documents in watercolor and ink, usually... Read full biography
Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, an Easton, Pennsylvania Bible artist, created birth and baptismal certificates, called frakturs. The Andres family of Sussex County, West New Jersey were some of his most active patrons, and for them and others he created art-rich documents in watercolor and ink, usually worded in English. Much like the page of a medieval manuscript, they featured musicians, floral groups, animals, and human figures. Often there was a floral border. His fraktur of one of the Andres's... Read full biography
Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, an Easton, Pennsylvania Bible artist, created birth and baptismal certificates, called frakturs. The Andres family of Sussex County, West New Jersey were some of his most active patrons, and for them and others he created art-rich documents in watercolor and ink, usually worded in English. Much like the page of a medieval manuscript, they featured musicians, floral groups, animals, and human figures. Often there was a floral border. His fraktur of one of the Andres's sons, in the collection of Ralph Esmerian, has been exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, and is illustrated and discussed by Pastor Frederick Weiser in "American Radiance," the book that accompanied the exhibition. Sources... Read full biography
Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, an Easton, Pennsylvania Bible artist, created birth and baptismal certificates, called frakturs. The Andres family of Sussex County, West New Jersey were some of his most active patrons, and for them and others he created art-rich documents in watercolor and ink, usually worded in English. Much like the page of a medieval manuscript, they featured musicians, floral groups, animals, and human figures. Often there was a floral border. His fraktur of one of the Andres's sons, in the collection of Ralph Esmerian, has been exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, and is illustrated and discussed by Pastor Frederick Weiser in "American Radiance," the book that accompanied the exhibition. Sources include:. http://www.pookandpookinc.com/highlights/02apr.html. http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/jun02/pook0602.htm. http:/... Read full biography
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Keywords (13)
Art Method
- •Decorative Art, Decoration Design, Ornamental Arts
- •Easel Painting
- •Fraktur/Document Decoration, Manuscript Illumination
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Colonial America
Chronology
- •18th Century
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War