Wille, Johann Georg, 1715-1808

LC control no.	n 87896083
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wille, Johann Georg, 1715-1808 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wille, Jean Georges, 1715-1808 Wille, Johan Georg, 1715-1808 Will, Johann Georg, 1715-1808 Will, J. G., 1715-1808 Wille, J.-G., 1715-1808
Other standard no.	24773049 0000000066310328
Birth date	17150511
Death date	18080504
Place of birth	Biebertal (Germany)
Place of death	Paris (France)
Field of activity	Engraving Art--Study and teaching Art--Collectors and collecting Art patronage
Affiliation	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Profession or occupation	Engravers Art dealers Art teachers Art--Collectors and collecting Art patrons
Found in	Le Blanc, C. Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, graveur, 1847: p. ix (b. 1717, Königsberg) p. xi (d. 1807, Paris) Thieme u. Becker (Wille (actually Will), Johann Georg, copperplate engraver; b. 5/11/1715 in Königsberg Obermühle in Biebertal bei Griessen; d. 5/4/1808 in Paris) Brockhaus Enzykl., 1966-1981: v. 20, p. 350 (Wille, Johann Georg; b. Obermühle in Biebertal bei Griessen, 5/11/1715; d. Paris, 5/4/1808) Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi, 1748: unnumbered leaf of plates (portrait) (signed beneath image: Gravé par J.G. Will) Grove Art Online/Oxford Art Online, Dec. 16, 2014 (Jean-Georges (Johann Georg) Wille, born Königsberg, Hessen, 5 Nov. 1715; died Paris, 15 April 1808; engraver, collector, dealer and patron; moved to Paris in 1736; after obtaining French citizenship, he was agréé (approved) by the Académie Royale in 1755 and completed his morceau de réception in 1761; his studio became one of the most important printmaking centres in Paris, and a meeting place for artists, collectors, dealers and young German engravers who wanted to train in Paris; however, unlike Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, who ran the other great Paris studio, Wille worked alone on the plates he signed; a collector himself, he also commissioned paintings; elected to membership of several foreign academies, including Augsburg (1756), Vienna (1768), Copenhagen (1770) and Berlin (1771); having sold his collection of paintings and drawings in 1784 he sold his prints in December 1786; by the time of the French Revolution, he had become blind and lived out his final years in straitened circumstances) Wille, Johann Georg. Mémoires et journal de J.-G. Wille, 1857, via HathiTrust, Dec. 16, 2014: title page (J.-G. Wille) page 1 (Jean-Georges Wille) BnF authorities, Dec. 16, 2014 (Wille, Johan Georg (1715-1808); language: German; also wrote in French; draftsman and burin engraver; list of his pupils, with links to BnF authorized access points)
Associated language	fre ger