Georg Christoph Eimmart

Planisphaerium Coeleste, original shortly before 1705, copy from 1730 by Matthäus Seutter

Monument for Eimmart on the Vestnertorbastei near Nuremberg Castle

Georg Christoph Eimmart, the younger (1638–1705), a German draughtsman and engraver, was born at Ratisbon. He was instructed by his father, Georg Christoph Eimmart the Elder (1597–1660), who was a painter of portraits, landscapes, still-life, and historical subjects. Eimmart the Younger resided at Nuremberg, where he died in 1705. He engraved some plates for Sandrart's Academia, and some small etchings of ruins, buildings, and vases, ornamented with figures, which have considerable merit. He was also a mathematician and astronomer, and published in 1701 Iconographia nova contemplationum de Sole.

His daughter Maria Clara Eimmart (1676–1707) was a designer and engraver as well. She usually worked with her father. She married the astronomer, J. H. Müller, and died at Altdorf in 1707.

The lunar crater Eimmart is named after Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "EIMMAR, Georg Christoph, the Elder" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

This article incorporates text from the article "EIMMAR, Georg Christoph, the Younger" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

This article incorporates text from the article "EIMMAR, Maria Clara" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Eimmart, Georg Christoph
Alternative names
Short description	engraver
Date of birth	1638
Place of birth	Regensburg
Date of death	1705
Place of death	Nuremberg