Johann Bussemacher
(worked about
1580 – 1613),
also called:
Buxemacher or
Bussemecher.
Engraver, printer
and publisher
in Cologne.
Bussemacher,
a trained copper
engraver from
Düsseldorf,
lived in Cologne
from 1583. There
he ran a publishing
house with his
own printing
press. He printed
and published
mainly geographical
works, but he
also made many
copper engravings
with religious
themes.
From about
1600 he was
the best and
most important
printer in Cologne
and the high-quality
copper engravings
made in his
print shop became
very popular.
Matthias
Quad (1557 - 1613),
full name: Matthias
Quad von Kinckelbach.
Engraver
and geographer.
Matthias
Quad was trained
as an engraver
first under
Jan (Johannes)
van Deutecum
(worked about
1554-1606) in
Deventer and
then under Hendrick
Goltzius (1558-1616)
in Haarlem.
From about
1587 until 1604
Matthias Quad
lived in Cologne,
where he worked
as a copper
engraver and
writer of historico-geographical
texts. For atlases,
published from
1592 by Johann
Bussemacher
(worked about
1580-1613) in
Cologne, he
created many
copper engravings
as well as the
texts in German.
During 1592
to 1604 Matthias
Quad wrote many
historical and
geographical
texts and books
in German and
Latin. Most
of them had
been published
in Cologne.
In 1604 he
had to leave
Cologne for
religious reasons.
After that he
worked as an
engraver for
publishers in
Heidelberg and
Nuremberg, but
also still for
publishers in
Cologne.
In 1608 his
atlas 'Fasciculus
Geographicus'
was published
by Johann Bussemacher
in Cologne and
his major work
'Teutscher Nation
Herligkeit',
a book with
historico-cultural
regional studies
of Germany,
was also published
in Cologne,
by Wilhelm Lützenkirchen
in 1609.
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