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marcus tuscher 's self-portrait 6 january 1751 copenhagen , kingdom of denmark nuremberg , holy roman empire printmaking , painting , architecture 1 june 1705 marcus tuscher.jpg carl marcus tuscher
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carl marcus tuscher

carl marcus tuscher -lrb- june 1 , 1705 in nuremberg - january 6 , 1751 in copenhagen -rrb- was a german-born danish polymath : portrait painter , printmaker , architect , and decorator of the baroque period .
tuscher was born in the free imperial city of nuremberg in 1705 to humble parents .
his mother , ursula negelin , was single , while his father is said to have been ferdinand tuscher , who gave him his name .
he was educated at findelhaus and later as an apprentice to a painter , director of nuremberg 's academy of arts , johan daniel preisler , who was the father of engraver johan martin preisler .
when his apprenticeship was over -lrb- 1728 -rrb- , he had made considerable progress and was considered such a promising and accomplished artist that the city gave him a traveling scholarship to rome .
in italy besides painting he lay now also to the art of building and made drawings for several churches and palaces , his projects for church buildings earned him a papal knight 's cross .
he got employed by prussian antiquarian baron philipp von stosch , whose great collection contained over 10,000 cameos , intaglios , and antique glass pastes .
tuscher got a paltry salary for work , but during his learned patron guidance he got insight in the sciences and taught the classical languages .
stosch , who was also a british spy , for political reason had to flee from the papal states to florence in 1734 , refugee under the tolerant rule of gian gastone de ' medici .
tuscher followed him to live in the grand-duchy , still employed by v. stosch for several years , he was also given tasks by the grand ducal court and executed a proposal for the façade of the church of s. lorenzo .
after visiting naples he left italy in 1741 for france , holland and england , even though he was aware his scholarship actually demanded himself to return home in nuremberg after graduation .
in london he met the danish cartoonist and explorer , captain frederik ludvig norden , whom he had befriended in florence .
at the time , he was part of the german colony in the british capital , where he was assistant at a drawing academy , led by the goldsmith gm moser .
he painted a portrait of the family of instrument-maker burkhardt tschudi -lrb- 1742 , national portrait gallery -lrb- london -rrb- -rrb- .
in november 1743 he moved to copenhagen , where he was made court painter and royal architect invited by king christian vi and had the counts danneskiold-samsøe as his benefactors .
he got an apartment and studio at christiansborg palace .
in denmark , his first work was a sumptuous decoration for admiralty college building on the occasion of princess louise of great britain arrival .
later he painted a large portrait of king christian vi on horseback , surrounded by allegorical figures -lrb- 1748 -rrb- .
it was a plafond painting in a hall of christiansborg and were destroyed by fire in 1794 with the castle .
most of tuscher 's paintings have suffered the same misfortune .
there is a portrait of king christian vi with family -lrb- around 1744 , rosenborg -rrb- of tuscher , but it is uncertain whether tuscher have done it , or if it is a copy of jf gerhard .
one of the main surviving paintings of tuscher are full portraits of count johan ludvig holstein and his brothers in the great hall at ledreborg manor .
it was probably tuscher , who first proposed the idea of the octagonal square in frederiksstaden , known today as the amalienborg palace square , and it was certainly the one who suggested that the site should have a monument at the center .
he wrote in italian a great work of art composed by drawings , depicting a large fountain with frederik v 's equestrian statue -lrb- 1750 -rrb- , who gave the idea for the equestrian monument in the square , which was later performed by j.-f .
- j. saly .
tuscher also performed a floor plan to amalienborg square , which probably gave idea to nicolai eigtved , as it was done at the construction of the four palaces .
the monument shows tuscher 's familiarity with the italian baroque art and a strong affinity with bernini 's fountains and sculpture sets in rome .
stylistically , he remained faithful to the italian baroque and was nicknamed the `` nordic bernini '' .
he were married in copenhagen on 15 may 1747 with sofie wahl -lrb- ca. 1728 - december 6 , 1798 -rrb- .
she was the daughter of fellow-painter johann salomon wahl and marie sophie davidson .
the couple had a child ; caroline fredericia tuscher -lrb- january 4 .
1751 - august 15 , 1809 -rrb- .
marcus tuscher died after a long illness on 6 january 1751 under the reign of frederik v and was buried at vor frelsers kirke -lrb- our saviour 's church -rrb- in copenhagen .
