Object Number 2013.0031.074

Object Name

Fraktur (Drawing)

Title

Seven Rules of Wisdom

Category

Works on Paper

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle

Creator (Role)

Karl Muench (Maker)
01/07/1769-01/08/1833
References: Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes, pp. 292-94; Evans, "Documented Fraktur in the Winterthur Collection: Part II," Magazine Antiques (March 1973), vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 539-49. Earnests record Muench's birthplace as Mettenheim in France, other sources say Mettenheim in Wartenburg, Germany; Mettenheim does not appear in Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Muench was born to French Huguenot parents who fled to Germany to escape persecution. He fought against, and was wounded by, the invading French armies in the early 1790s, leaving him with a partially paralyzed left arm. He was not an ordained minister, but possibly conducted church services.

Place of Origin

Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Materials

Watercolor; Ink; Paper (wove)

Dimensions (inches)

7 (H) , 8.9 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

18 (H) , 22.7 (W)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Shelley, Donald A. 1961 The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans. 23.
• On this form, see p. 47.