Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674 - 1748). Johann Andreas Pfeffel was a German engraver and art publisher.He showed early talent for the art of copperplate engraving. He received his training at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He dealt with both the chisel and with the scraping or black art and presented in Vienna several large portraits and allegorical leaves her. Responding to the taste of his time, he developed a diverse activity in all sorts of companies, which he expanded over time. In Vienna he received the title of kk court copper engraver, but did not stay in this city, but instead settled in Augsburg in 1711 according to a plan drawn up earlier. There he founded an art shop with Christian Engelbrecht. This art dealership gained an important reputation and soon flourished, as the entrepreneurs set up a publishing house for art papers in addition to the assortment business for individual art items. Numerous works, including several on a very large scale, emerged from this workshop. Portraits of contemporary personalities, political and ceremonial events, theater scenes, views of famous places, major theses at church ordinations, theological and philosophical disputations, collections of images of saints for the use of the people and schools, art books, ornaments and the like have been published. Also the famous Bible Physica Sacra ofJohann Jakob Scheuchzer was published by this publisher from 1731 to 1735. Pfeffel thus gives testimony to the taste of its time through the multitude of these articles. Even if the technical work of copperplate engraving is to be called a bit broad, in that he also had other artists such as Johann Evangelist Holzer work on it, there is a historical interest in his work, on the other hand there is also a certain wealth of ideas in them, especially in the great theatrical decorations after Bibiena, to be noticed.