Berlin - Mauerstraße - Mitte: Jean Rosenberg / Jean Morino - Original copper engraving - 1776

Berlin - Mauerstraße - Mitte: Jean Rosenberg / Jean Morino - Original copper engraving - 1776

Name: Berlin - Mauerstraße - Mitte: Jean Rosenberg / Jean Morino - Original copper engraving - 1776
Brand: Rosenberg, Jean
Price: 4750.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

This hand-colored view of Berlin's Mauerstraße from 1776 offers a rare glimpse into 18th-century urban life. Architecture, daily life, and order combine to create a tranquil, richly detailed cityscape of profound historical presence. The copper engraving is both documentary and atmospheric, its full effect only unfolding upon close inspection. A print that holds the viewer's attention and invites them to discover ever-new details.

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artist

Artist / Engraver / Template:Jean (Johann Georg) Rosenberg

Publisher:Jean Morino & Company

Technology & Printing Processes

Copper engraving

Details

Year:1776

Size in cm:40.7 x 67.7 image
Size in cm:52.7 x 75.6 sheets

Place of publication:Berlin
Condition:Good

Special features

References:Ernst: Rosenberg JG-17 p. 640; Kiewitz No. 1054

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Information about the work

Image description

The view opens up along Mauerstraße, its gently rising perspective drawing the viewer deep into the pictorial space. The clearly structured facades of the townhouses frame the street and direct the eye to the striking dome of the Bohemian Church, which rises serenely and monumentally in the background. Subtle, hand-applied colors lend the buildings warmth and materiality, while the bright sky, dotted with finely nuanced clouds, blankets the cityscape. Small figures enliven the scene: strollers, conversations at the roadside, a dog crossing the cobblestones. Everything appears calm, orderly, and imbued with a quiet everydayness, as if a fleeting moment of Berlin life has been captured for eternity.

Artistic context

The copper engraving was created in 1776, a period in which topographical cityscapes were gaining increasing importance, no longer serving solely representative purposes but also serving as visual chronicles of urban life. The work is based on a design by Jean (Johann Georg) Rosenberg and was published by Jean Morino & Compagnie in Berlin. Typical of Rosenberg's work is the precise architectural rendering combined with finely drawn figures that lend the cityscapes a sense of life. The hand-colored version presented here, in its second state, significantly enhances the rarity and collector's appeal of the print. As a documented work with references in the relevant catalogues raisonnés, this print possesses a clear art historical context and lasting significance within the iconography of Berlin's urban landscape.

Rosenberg, Jean

Jean (Johann Georg) Rosenberg is among the most important engravers and draftsmen of the 18th century who specialized in cityscapes and architectural vedute. His works are characterized by clear lines, precise perspective, and a pronounced sense of spatial order. Rosenberg understood how to depict cities not only as architectural structures but also as vibrant centers of social life. Within art history, he plays a significant role in the development of topographical graphics, particularly in the context of the early pictorial documentation of cities like Berlin. His works are now valued testimonies to an era in which urban identity, the Enlightenment, and bourgeois self-understanding were increasingly manifested in the cityscape.