Joachim von Sandrart

Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688)

Joachim van Sandrart was born in Frankfurt and started his training there, later taking apprenticeships with artists in various other places. Initially, Von Sandrart concentrated on engravingEngravingEngraving involves the scratching of a text or design into an object. Various techniques exist since every material requires different treatment. Copperplate engraving requires a steel-tipped graver - a burin. This is used to scratch lines into the surface. A print of the design can be made when the plate is coated in ink. Glass can also be engraved. To make lines on glass, however, a diamond-point graver is employed. Tones of shade can be introduced with hatching., but subsequently focused on painting, under Gerard Honthorst in Utrecht, for example. There he met Rubens, with whom he travelled around the Netherlands. Together with Honthorst he visited the English court. Von Sandrart also journeyed to Italy in 1628. He lived and worked from 1637 to 1642 in Amsterdam, where he produced a civic guard portrait for the Arquebusiers company. He subsequently moved to Germany and Austria. He died in 1688 in Nuremberg.