Paul Decker I (Nuremberg 1677 – Bayreuth 1713)
Design of a Ceiling
Baroque ceiling decoration with eagles in the four corners with the center piece in a broad enclosure and in a such a manner intended for a large room. Engraving by Johann Daniel Her(t)z I (1698 Augsburg 1754) at Jeremias Wolff (1663 [1673?] – 1724) there. Inscribed: P. Decker invent. et del. / Ioh. Daniel Hertz sculpsit. 16. / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Maj. / Ieremias Wolff excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German as above. Sheet size 41.2 x 53 cm.
Rich large plate from Decker’s “Architectura civilis” (1711/16). – Three sides trimmed on/to the hatched frame of the image, below up to the title’s f-flourish. Completely smoothed center fold.
“ Of far greater importance are the engraved works published by D., among which especially his ‘Princely Architect or Architectura civilis’ … has been
of far-reaching influence on the development of architecture in the Franconian realm,
particularly in the margraviates. D.s fame as architect was essentially tied to this book … which … presents only very few designs of D.s, but the more so borrowings from (his great teacher) Schlüter and others ”
(Thieme-Becker VIII [1913], 524 f.).
1708 court architect of Count Palatine Theodore in Sulzbach, 1710 in the employ of Margrave George William of Brandenburg-Bayreuth where Decker advanced to building director for the whole margraviate.
Offer no. 28,898 / EUR 270. / export price EUR 257. (c. US$ 357.) + shipping
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(Sign. L. B., December 10, 2005)