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Johan Balzer

Header: Johan Balzer
Also known as: Johan Balzer; primary name: Balzer, Johan Heinrich; other name: Baltzer, Jan Jirí
Details: individual; publisher/printer; printmaker; Czech; Male
Life dates: 1736-1799
Biography: Engraver and publisher. Studied with J.J.Rentze in Kuks, 1750-58 and in various German academies. His sons, Jan Karel and Antonín Karel, who also became draughtsmen and engravers, were born in Lysé n. L.; the family then moved to Prague where Baltzer opened a business selling prints from his own workshop (produced by himself and his brothers, Rehor and Matyas Baltzer) which he sold into the pedlar trade. One of his agents was Joseph Carmine (qv). Made prints of works by painters and printmakers, such as N.Grund, J.Kleinhardt, J.Q. Jahn, J. Redelmayer. Member of the Vienna Academy.

14 related objects

print

Title: Florian Leopoldus Gass=mann |
Museum number: 1913,0415.134 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johan BalzerAfter:Anton Hickel |
Production date: 1769-1774

print; book-illustration

Title: Bartolus a Saxoferrato |
Museum number: Bb,11.438 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johan BalzerIntermediary draughtsman:Johann Kleinhard |
Production date: 1772

print

Title: Wenceslaus Reiner |
Museum number: 1989,1104.434 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johan BalzerAfter:Wenzel Lorenz Reiner |
Production date: 1751-1799

print

Title: Maximilian / Ertzherzog von Oestereich |
Museum number: Bb,14.623 |
Producer name: BIOG18295 Published by:Johan Balzer |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:Prague

print; book-illustration

Title: Elisabetha Ionna Westonia |
Museum number: 1881,1112.234 |
Producer name: BIOG18295 Print made by:Johan Balzer |
Production date: 1777

print

Museum number: 1862,1108.27 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johan BalzerAfter:John Quiring Jahn |
Production date: 1760-1799

print

Title: Catharina / de Bore |
Museum number: 1877,0210.385 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johan BalzerAfter:A Pechwell |
Production date: 1750-1758

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1895,1031.63 |
Producer name: BIOG18295 Print made by:Johan Balzer |
Production date: 1765

print

Title: Fridericus Rex Bor. El. Br. |
Museum number: 1894,0122.147 |
Producer name: Published by:Johan BalzerAfter:Daniel Chodowiecki |
Production date: 1776-1786

print

Title: Maria Theresia. |
Museum number: Bb,8.206 |
Producer name: BIOG18295 Print made by:Johan Balzer |
Production date: 1770-1779 |
Production place: Published in:Prague

print

Title: Iosephus Secundus. |
Museum number: Bb,14.365 |
Producer name: BIOG18295 Print made by:Johan Balzer |
Production date: 1765-1790 |
Production place: Printed in:Prague

print; visiting-card

Museum number: C,1.2976-2988 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPrint made by:János Blaschke |
Production date: 18thC

print

Title: Procopius Diviss |
Museum number: 1944,1014.352 |
Producer name: BIOG18295 Print made by:Johan Balzer |
Production date: 1751-1799

print; visiting-card

Museum number: C,1.2989-3005 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPrint made by:George Michell |
Production date: 18thC