Daniel Preissler (1627 - 1665)

Born 8 Mar 1627 in Prag-Neustadt, Königreich Böhmen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Margaretha (Brandmann) Preissler — married 5 Apr 1654 in St. Sebald Kirche, Nürnberg, Kurfürstentum Bayern, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Husband of Magdalena (Riedner) Popp — married 18 Sep 1655 in St. Sebald Kirche, Nürnberg, Kurfürstentum Bayern, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died 19 Jun 1665 at age 38 in Nürnberg, Kurfürstentum Bayern, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Biography

Daniel Preissler is Notable.

Daniel Preissler was born on 8 Mar 1627 in Prag-Neustadt, Königreich Böhmen, Heiliges Römisches Reich, son of Georg Preissler (1593–1656) and Dorothea Wittman.

Sy Scholfield quotes ^[1] "Ao. 1627 d 8 Martz zu Nacht um halbweg 2 am Sonntag bin ich Daniel Preisler [sic] gebohren d 9. Martz bey St. Stephan auf der Neustadt getauft worden."

Translation: A[nn]o. 1627, 8 March at night halfway around 2 on Sunday was I, Daniel Preisler, born; baptized on 9 March at St. Stephen's of Neustadt.

Note: The church "St. Stephan auf der Neustadt" is in Prague. He writes that he was born on Sunday night and gives the date as 8 March 1627 halfway toward 2am. This date in Old Style was actually Monday morning

Daniel Preissler (27) married Margaretha Brandmann (23) on 5 Apr 1654 in St. Sebald Kirche, Nürnberg, Kurfürstentum Bayern, Heiliges Römisches Reich. Tragically Margaretha died in childbirth only 8 months after their wedding.

Daniel Preissler (28) married Magdalena Riedner (19) on 18 Sep 1655 in St. Sebald Kirche, Nürnberg, Kurfürstentum Bayern, Heiliges Römisches Reich. Their children were:

• Maria Magdalene Preissler (1656–1664)
• Margaretha Preissler (1657–1662)
• Daniel Preissler (1658–~1665)
• Anna Sybilla Preissler (1660–>1698)
• Judith Preissler (1663–1663)
• Margaretha Barbara Preissler (1664–>1706)
• Johann Daniel Preissler (1666–1737)

Daniel Preissler died on 19 Jun 1665 in Nürnberg, Kurfürstentum Bayern, Heiliges Römisches Reich, aged 38. While his son Johann Daniel writes that his father was buried in St. Johannis' churchyard, we find his burial record in the church book for St. Lorenz Kirche on 20 Jun 1665.

^[2]Extract (translated) from "Slægten Preisler" below…

Painter in Nuremberg

Son of no.5, Georg. * 8.3.1627 in Prag-Neustadt, + 19.6.1665 and buried at St. Johannis Kirchhof in Nurnberg.
>>1. 5.4.1654 in Nürnberg with Margaretha Brandmann, + 5.8.1654 [Correction! 5.10.1654 - see her Research Notes] same place, daughter of tailor Marx Brandmann, Nürnberg.
>>2. 18.7.1655 [Correction! 18.9.1655 - see Research Notes] in Nürnberg to Magdalena Riedner, + 14.9.1682 [Correction! 2.6.1865 - see her Research Notes] same place, daughter of rector H.M. Johann Riedner. 7 children: no.10 - 16.

He is the first Preisler whose diary we know, ^[3] and from him comes all our knowledge of his parents. About himself, he wrote that he was born on 9 March at 1.30 am on Sunday and was christened in St. Stephen's Church in Neustadt the following day. His godparents were: Franck Schlosser in Neustadt, Cristoph Danner, tailor in Altstadt, Maria Schindlerin and Dorothea Kehschendlerin.

On 7 October 1642 he was apprenticed to H. Christian Schiebling "Sr. Churfl. Durchl. zu Sachsen Wohlbestalten Oberhofmaler und Inspector des Lust und inventions Hauses". The apprenticeship lasted 6 years. From 4 July 1650 he "wandered" through Germany and Austria until he reached Nuremberg in July 1652. Here he must have been in contact with other painters, visited their studios and made a "Probestück" before becoming a master on 27 May 1654.

After the death of his first wife, he travelled to his parents' home in Dresden. During this stay, he was offered a trip to Italy by Elector Christian, but declined and returned to Nuremberg. Here he married for the second time: "der Erbarn und Tugendsame Jungfrau Magdalena, des Erbarn und Wohlgelehrte H.M.Johann Riedners, Rector zu St.Lorentzen, Eheleiblichen Tochter erster Ehe". His father-in-law died on 12 April 1656, aged 53.

The rest of the diary tells of the birth and christening of his 6 children, and the death of three of them. The son Daniel died the same year as his father, and the seventh, Johann Daniel, was born after his father's death and is therefore not included in the diary.

According to Leitschoe's "Die Familie Preisler und Markus Tuscher", the painter Daniel and his descendants in Nuremberg were of great importance to the city. During the Thirty Years' War, artistic life had come to a standstill and there was no worthy successor to the famous Albrecht Durer, and although Daniel may not have been a great artist, he brought renewal, a little fresh blood, to a city exhausted by war.

His trial painting, to be recognised as a master, 'Cain Killing Abel' (1.71m x 1.25m) first hung in the city's town hall, but is now in the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg. In 1660 he painted "The Preaching of the Holy Spirit" for the Spitalkirche and in 1661 "Ascension" for St Margaret's Church in Nuremberg. A bust of Justina Katarina Kirchmeyr is in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Two chalk drawings are owned by the Kupferstich-Kabinet in Munich. The brothers Joachim and Jacob Sandrart, Hainzelmann, B. and P. Kilian and Valentin Daniel Preisler, his grandson, have copper engraved about 20 of his pictures.

In 1662, Daniel was elected to the "grössern Rat", where he remained until his untimely death at the age of 38.

Daniel was the first Preisler to break with craft traditions when he chose to become a painter, and he and his son and grandchildren brought so much honour to the name in Nuremberg that a street was later named after them: "Preisslerstrasse".

Research Notes

Church book for St. Stephan, Nové Mesto, Prague, for the period 1610-1640 can be found here: St. Stephan. However, there appear to be missing records for the period 1624-1629. Additionally, this church is noted as being a Catholic church - was Daniel Preisler baptised a catholic?

"Slægten Preisler" gives the date of Daniel's marriage to Magdalena Riedner as 18.7.1654, however, checking the information in "Geschichte der Preisler'schen Künstlerfamilie" we see that the date given is "18. 7bris"  (1655 d 22 Julii am Magdalena Tag mich wiederum nach Gottes Willen verlobet mit der Erbarn u. Tugendsamen Jgfr. Magdalena, des Erbarn u. Wohlgelehrten H. M. Johann Riedners Rector zu St Lorentzen Eheleiblichen Tochter erster Ehe; den 5 Aug. mich verkünden lassen. d 18. 7bris Hochzeit gehabt.) - ie 18 September 1654. This is confirmed having located the marriage record. [ Carl Preisler 30 Jan 2024 ]

References to a number of Daniel Preissler's works can be found at the Germanisches National Museum, Nürnberg, Germany.

• Paulus Freher der Jüngere (Gemälde, Porträt): https://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm1273 (Accessed 24 October 2021)
• Georg Woelckern, königlich französischer und schwedischer Kriegsrat und Generalauditeur: https://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm907 (Accessed 24 October 2021)
• Johann Erhardt Ebermayer (Gemälde, Porträt): https://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm1468 (Accessed 24 October 2021)
• Lahmenheilung vor dem Tempel in Jerusalem durch Christus: https://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm2178 (Accessed 24 October 2021)

Sources

1. ↑ "Archiv für die zeichnenden Künste mit besonderer Beziehung auf Kupferstecher- und Holzschneidekunst und ihre Geschichte, Volumes 7-9" (Rudolph Weigel, 1862), p. 364:
2. ↑ Space:500_Preislere_i_500_år_-_Eller_den_danske_gren_af_Slægten_Preisler (Nr. 7 Daniel Preisler, pg 18-19)
3. ↑ Space:Originalaufzeichnungen_zur_Geschichte_der_Preislerschen_Künstlerfamilie (Daniel Preisler)

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• Burial Register: "Germany, Kirchenbücher", digital images (subscription required), Archion, archion.de; "Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern"; Bayern, Dekanat Nürnberg, Nürnberg-St. Lorenz; Bestattungen 1637 - 1667; Image 42 (https://www.archion.de/p/572bb5e566/ : downloaded 29 January 2024).
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• Leitschuh Franz Friedrich, "Die Familie Preisler und Markus Tuscher: Ein Bietrag zur Geschichte der Kunst im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert"; Leipzig: Verlag Von E. A. Seemann, 1886; digital pdf, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf (https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/8352529 : downloaded 1 January 2024);  Section: Daniel Preisler, pg 4-8 (18-22)

• Deutsche Biographie: "Preis(s)ler: Nürnberger Maler- und Verlegerfamilie. (lutherisch)," article, deutsche-biographie.de (https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz97206.html#ndbcontent : downloaded 10 October 2021).
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• Wikisource: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Preisler,_Daniel#Preisler.2C_Johann_Daniel
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Preissler