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\n \n Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff <\/span>\n \t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\tWHAT THEY HAD IN COMMON \u2013 WHAT SEPARATED THEM\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Outline \u2013 First Part
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1.<\/strong> Marriage and Fourteen Common Years in Nurembrg \u2013 A Launch Pad for Merian\u2019s Career?<\/span><\/p>\n

1.1<\/strong> Johann Andreas Graff\u2019s Nuremberg Origins<\/span><\/p>\n

1.2<\/strong> Training in Frankfurt in the Family of Maria Sibylla Meriani<\/span><\/p>\n

1.3<\/strong> Graff\u2018s Journeyman Years in Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

1.4<\/strong> Starting a Family in Frankfurt<\/span><\/p>\n

1.5<\/strong> Move to Nuremberg \u2013 City of Culture and Civic Pride<\/span><\/p>\n

1.6<\/strong> Living and Working in the House at the Milk Market<\/span><\/p>\n

1.7<\/strong> Maria Sibylla\u2019s Nuremberg Works<\/span><\/p>\n

1.8<\/strong> Nuremberg Garden Culture \u2013 A Paradise for Butterfly Researchers<\/span><\/p>\n

1.9<\/strong> Outlook for the 2017 Commemorative Year for Merian<\/span><\/p>\n

Abbrevations of Archives etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abbreviations of Various Fields of Literature<\/span><\/p>\n

Endnotes<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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View from the Imperial Chapel next to \u201eMaria Sybilla Merian Garden\u201c to the Old Town roofscape with the family home of Graff and Merian in Bergstra\u00dfe
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1. MARRIAGE AND FOURTEEN COMMON YEARS IN NUREMBERG \u2013 A LAUNCH PAD FOR MERIAN\u2019S CAREER?<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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In 1679, a novel book was published in Nuremberg, and more than 330 years later, it still attracts attention. Postcards with motifs from this book are sold in museum shops world-wide, and calendars with attractive large format illustrations are published regularly. But the author of this work about the metamorphosis of insects in their various stages of development and of their host plants did not come to fame under the name \u201cMaria Sibylla Gr\u00e4ffinn\u201c, the name both she and her Nuremberg associates used during her 20 years of marriage to a Nuremberg artist.<\/p>\n

The daughter of the deceased (=Seel[igen]) famous copperplate etcher and publisher, Matth\u00e4us Merian the Elder, achieved world fame under her maiden name, assumed again after the separation from her Nuremberg husband. Today, the name of her first publisher and life partner of many years, Johann Andreas Graff, is largely forgotten, although his prints still exist.<\/p>\n

Some authors still mention Graff in connection with Maria Sibylla Merian, usually either as colourless and mysterious or even inept, unreliable, sometimes even as alcoholic and violent.<\/p>\n

In 2017, on the 300th anniversary of Merian\u2019s death, there will be new publications about this early icon and her self-determined, courageous life. So now is the moment for a closer look at her time in the Nuremberg house \u201cTo the Golden Sun\u201d with her husband, her daughters and wider personal environment, with favourable conditions for her development as an artist, insect observer and non-fiction author.<\/p>\n

In the catalogue for the major Frankfurt exhibition on Maria Sibylla Merian of 1997, on the 350th anniversary of her birth, Kurt Wettengl wrote laconically about Johann Andreas Graff: \u201cHis work has been little known or researched.\u201d (3) This sentence can be read in a collection of essays which, because of the comprehensive involvement of various Merian specialist researchers and its remarkable attention to detail is today rightly regarded as a standard research work on Merian. (Side Track 10: Compilation of Quotations about Johann Andreas Graff in literature) The statement concerning a gap in research is still true \u2013 astonishing and difficult to understand because there is lasting interest in the life and work of Merian.\n

Overall, in published Merian research, there are white patches, even persistent misunderstandings about her time in Nuremberg. More intense research in local archives and in older secondary literature provides insight and may contribute to better understanding the path of this splendid woman and the conditions for her early success.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Wei\u00dfe Flecken in der ver\u00f6ffentlichten Merianin-Forschung oder sogar hartn\u00e4ckige Missverst\u00e4ndnisse gibt es insgesamt f\u00fcr ihre N\u00fcrnberger Zeit. Intensivere\u00a0 Nachforschungen in Archiven vor Ort und in \u00e4lterer Literatur sind aufschlussreich und k\u00f6nnen dazu beitragen, den Lebensweg dieser gro\u00dfartigen Frau und die Rahmenbedingungen f\u00fcr ihren fr\u00fchen Erfolg besser zu verstehen.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Excerpt from the title page of the first Caterpillar Book 1679 <\/em>(1)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Excerpt from the title page of a series of 16 views of Nuremberg cityscapes and churches, 1694 <\/em>(2)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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1.1 JOHANN ANDREAS GRAFF\u2019S NUREMBERG ORIGINS<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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How important were Johann Andreas Graff and their marriage of two decades for Merian\u2019s path through life? Was Nuremberg just an intermediate stage in the back of beyond with a huge work load, or was it the place where she could develop her life\u2019s topic, her personality and present the first unique results of her intense study of nature? These questions cannot be reliably answered without casting a closer look at her then partner.<\/p>\n

Johann Andreas Graff was born in Nuremberg during the Thirty Years\u2019 War, in early May, 1636. His father Johann Graff (latinised: Gravius, 1595-1644) had migrated to Nuremberg, having been born in Marisfeld (county Henneberg in Thuringia). The Graff family soon made its home in this city with its educated citizens, thirsty for knowledge and with a passion for collecting.<\/p>\n

Johann Gravius was a school master, and was honoured as \u201cpoeta laureatus\u201d (poet laureate) by Nuremberg University in Altdorf. In 1487, Emperor Frederic II, in the tradition of the crowning of poets in antiquity, had for the first time honoured a German poet with a laurel wreath (laurea). From 1622, the University of Altdorf, by imperial privilege, had the right to bestow this honour for special services to language and rhetoric. (4)<\/p>\n

The writing on the oval frame around the commemorative half-figure copperplate etching shows how highly respected Gravius was, although he was not a native of Nuremberg. On the lower part of the sheet, Gravius is praised as a famous star among the followers of the muses and grand \u201cApollo\u201d, \u201cnobile sidus Aonii gregis, et magnus Apollo\u201d<\/strong> (6). A very honourable comparison for the school master, since the Greek god Apollo still had great symbolic significance as protector of the Arts and ruler of the muses, in Baroque times. \u201enobile sidus Aonii gregis, et magnus Apollo\u201c<\/em>. Ein sehr ehrenhafter Vergleich f\u00fcr den Herrn Magister, weil der griechische Gott Apoll als Besch\u00fctzer der Sch\u00f6nen K\u00fcnste und Lenker der Musen sogar noch in der Barockzeit gro\u00dfe symbolische Bedeutung hatte.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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This first part of the essay (41 pages) by Margot L\u00f6lh\u00f6ffel has been published in German together with other essays dealing with Nuremberg topics in the annual \u201cN\u00fcrnberger Altstadtberichte\u201d of the \u201cN\u00fcrnberger Altstadtfreunde\u201d, no. 40\/2015.<\/p>\n

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Commemorative copperplate etching for the late headmaster, Gravius<\/em> (5)
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  1. Gr\u00e4ffin, Maria Sibylla (MSM 1679), Excerpt from the title page of First Caterpillar Book (Erstes Raupenbuch); courtesy of StadtBN, Handschriftenabteilung, Sig. Med. 332.4\u2013 illuminated copy<\/li>\n
  2. Graff, Johann Andreas, excerpt from title page of \u201dUrbis Noribergensis Insigniorum Templorum\u201d, 1694; etching, plate 21,5 x 21 cm, courtesy of St\u00e4dtMN, Kunstsammlungen, Inv. No. Gr.A. 099874<\/li>\n
  3. Wettengl (Lit 1997), p. 36, No. 18<\/li>\n
  4. M\u00e4hrle (Soz 2000) p. 93<\/li>\n
  5. Som(m)er, Mathias van (etcher), memorial sheet for Johann(es) Graf (Gravius), etching, \nplate: 18.4 x 12.2 cm, sheet: 18.6 x 12.6 cm; courtesy of \u00a9 Herzog Anton Ulrich Museums (HAUM), Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen, photographic rights: Museumsfotograf Inv. No. m-v-sommer-ab-30006; Thanks to Renate Ell, Hettenshausen for pointing out the internet source.<\/li>\n
  6. Thanks to Dr. Hans-Martin Hagen, N\u00fcrnberg, for translation and helpful explanations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Sibylla Merianin und Johann Andreas Graff Gemeinsames und Trennendes \u00dcbersicht \u2013 Erster Teil 1. 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