? - 1750
Georg Balthasar Probst was a German artist, engraver and publisher
in Augsburg, a major European publishing center in the 17th and 18th
centuries. He produced architectural views of places around the world
intended as vues d’optiques, which were published in various places
during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and
London. He was also known for his portraits.
Probst came
from an extended family of printers, whose businesses can all be traced
back to the publishing firm of Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724). After
Wolff's death his firm was continued as “Wolff’s Heirs” (Haeres Jer.
Wolffii) by his son-in-law Johann Balthasar Probst (1689-1750). After
Probst’s death in 1750, his descendants divided the business and
published under their own imprints: Johann Friedrich Probst
(1721-1781), Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) and Johann Michael
Probst.
Another part of the Wolff-Probst firm was acquired by the
Augsburg publisher Johann Georg Hertel (1700-1775), whose son Georg
Leopold Hertel had married a sister of the Probsts. In the next
generation, Georg Mathäus Probst (d. 1788), son of Georg Balthasar
Probst, also became an engraver of portraits and views.
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An illustrated list of makers of maps, charts and globes from the earliest time of cartography to present.
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