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Kandt, Kevin E.: Some notes on two allegorical drawings attributed to Andreas Schlüter the Younger from the Jacob Kabrun collection in the National Museum of Gdańsk
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Schliiteriana. The response to the initial presentation was indeed positive.10
Thus, as a result of the most recent developments in the scholarship concern-
ing the artist’s work as a draftsman, which may have now allowed scholars,
in general, a slightly better insight into Schluter’s style and technique in this
medium, the more definitive inclusion of these Gdańsk Museum drawings
into Andreas Schluter’s oeuvre now seems much more feasible especially due
to their well-documented provenance.
II. Jacob Kabrun s Collection as a Clue to the Drawings’ Origins
Two initial arguments in favor of an attribution to Andreas Schluter include
the following: first, the Danzig merchant and art-collector Jacob Kabrun,
from whose collection the drawings originate, was an avid collector who often
acquired prints and drawings from various 16th-18th century European schools
(Italian, French, German, Dutch, English, and Irish) during his business travels
to cities like Paris, London, Dresden, perhaps Leipzig (?) and Berlin.11 Com-
mercial activity in Berlin may have already been a tradition in the Kabrun fam-
ily business according to one archival source?12 In any case, during his travels,
Kabrun did not neglect to purchase works done by local Danzig artists and for-
eign ones also active there and they are well-represented by a number of good
examples in the collection.13 Second, the stylistic similarity with certain previ-
ously-accepted works on paper - along with some newly-attributed ones - can
perhaps allow us to consider Schluter’s name more seriously in connection
with the Gdańsk drawings as we shall see.
10 Compare: Goerd Peschken, Review of “Kevin E. Kandt: Le bon gout. Andreas Schluter
and the Use of French Ornament Prints for the Interiors at the Berlin Royal Palace (1698-1706)”
“Journal fur Kunstgeschichte” 2011, Nr. 3, p. 178.
11 Talbierska, Zabuska, Straty wojenne..., p. 38-39.
12 Some evidence apparently documenting earlier Kabrun family business-affairs
conducted in Berlin includes the name “Jacob Kabrun - Dantzig” from a list (dated c. 1704)
entitled “Specificatio derer jenigen Kauff Leuthe, welche aufi hiesiger Gold und Silber
Manufactur wahren Kauffen und Verschreiben vorunter die jenigen welche in denen hiesiger
Residenzien ihre Wahre aufi der Gold und Silber Fabrique nehmen nicht begreiffen seyn”
in: Geheimer Rat - Allgemeine Verwaltung. Angelegenheiten der Gold- und Silberschmiedes
(1700-1761). Compare: Geheimes Staatsarchiv- Preussischer Kulturbesitz (hereafter GStA-PK)
I. HA Rep. 9, A.V., LL 4-4b (Paket 4212), fols. 57r, 58v. More research is required to fully clarify
this information.
13 Works by Jermias Falk (1629-1709), Willem Hondius (1644-1652), Ludwig Luck
(dates not given), Friedrich Rosenberg (active 1762-1833), Daniel Schultz (d. 1686), Andreas
Stech (d. 1697), Block, von Duisburg Catalog, p. 48-49, 63-64, 102, 103, 158, 170, 171; Kalina
Zabuska, Kolekcja Jacoba Kabruna - Ryciny szkoły niemieckiej od końca XV do początku
XIX wieku - Zbiory Muzeum Narodowego w Gdańsku [The Jacob Kabrun Collection: Prints of the
German School from the End of the 15th to the Beginning of the 19th Centuries in the Collections
of the National Museum of Gdańsk ], vol. IV. 1:1.1, cz. 1, Gdańsk 2009, p. 100-117,187-188.
Some Notes on
Two Allegorical
Drawings
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Thus, as a result of the most recent developments in the scholarship concern-
ing the artist’s work as a draftsman, which may have now allowed scholars,
in general, a slightly better insight into Schluter’s style and technique in this
medium, the more definitive inclusion of these Gdańsk Museum drawings
into Andreas Schluter’s oeuvre now seems much more feasible especially due
to their well-documented provenance.
II. Jacob Kabrun s Collection as a Clue to the Drawings’ Origins
Two initial arguments in favor of an attribution to Andreas Schluter include
the following: first, the Danzig merchant and art-collector Jacob Kabrun,
from whose collection the drawings originate, was an avid collector who often
acquired prints and drawings from various 16th-18th century European schools
(Italian, French, German, Dutch, English, and Irish) during his business travels
to cities like Paris, London, Dresden, perhaps Leipzig (?) and Berlin.11 Com-
mercial activity in Berlin may have already been a tradition in the Kabrun fam-
ily business according to one archival source?12 In any case, during his travels,
Kabrun did not neglect to purchase works done by local Danzig artists and for-
eign ones also active there and they are well-represented by a number of good
examples in the collection.13 Second, the stylistic similarity with certain previ-
ously-accepted works on paper - along with some newly-attributed ones - can
perhaps allow us to consider Schluter’s name more seriously in connection
with the Gdańsk drawings as we shall see.
10 Compare: Goerd Peschken, Review of “Kevin E. Kandt: Le bon gout. Andreas Schluter
and the Use of French Ornament Prints for the Interiors at the Berlin Royal Palace (1698-1706)”
“Journal fur Kunstgeschichte” 2011, Nr. 3, p. 178.
11 Talbierska, Zabuska, Straty wojenne..., p. 38-39.
12 Some evidence apparently documenting earlier Kabrun family business-affairs
conducted in Berlin includes the name “Jacob Kabrun - Dantzig” from a list (dated c. 1704)
entitled “Specificatio derer jenigen Kauff Leuthe, welche aufi hiesiger Gold und Silber
Manufactur wahren Kauffen und Verschreiben vorunter die jenigen welche in denen hiesiger
Residenzien ihre Wahre aufi der Gold und Silber Fabrique nehmen nicht begreiffen seyn”
in: Geheimer Rat - Allgemeine Verwaltung. Angelegenheiten der Gold- und Silberschmiedes
(1700-1761). Compare: Geheimes Staatsarchiv- Preussischer Kulturbesitz (hereafter GStA-PK)
I. HA Rep. 9, A.V., LL 4-4b (Paket 4212), fols. 57r, 58v. More research is required to fully clarify
this information.
13 Works by Jermias Falk (1629-1709), Willem Hondius (1644-1652), Ludwig Luck
(dates not given), Friedrich Rosenberg (active 1762-1833), Daniel Schultz (d. 1686), Andreas
Stech (d. 1697), Block, von Duisburg Catalog, p. 48-49, 63-64, 102, 103, 158, 170, 171; Kalina
Zabuska, Kolekcja Jacoba Kabruna - Ryciny szkoły niemieckiej od końca XV do początku
XIX wieku - Zbiory Muzeum Narodowego w Gdańsku [The Jacob Kabrun Collection: Prints of the
German School from the End of the 15th to the Beginning of the 19th Centuries in the Collections
of the National Museum of Gdańsk ], vol. IV. 1:1.1, cz. 1, Gdańsk 2009, p. 100-117,187-188.
Some Notes on
Two Allegorical
Drawings
Attributed...
163