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Pfründt, Georg
(b Flachslanden, Franconia, 1603; d Durlach, nr Karlsruhe, 1663). German wax-modeller, medallist, engraver and engineer. From 1615 he lived in Nuremberg. He first trained with the wood-carver and modeller Georg Vest the younger (1586–1638) and the sculptor Leonard Kern. Around 1626–7 he trained as architect and engineer in Mergentheim under Johann Caspar von Stadion (1556–1641). He then became an engineer in the service of Bernhard, Herzog von Saxe-Weimar. In 1639 Pfründt travelled to Strasbourg, in 1642 to Lyon and between 1642/3 and 1645 to Paris, where he worked with Jean Warin. Around 1646/9 he was back in Nuremberg, where he remained until 1658, apart from visits (c. 1652/3) to the Imperial Diet at Regensburg. In Nuremberg he was involved in the construction of a triumphal arch for the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (1658; engraving by Peter Paul Troschel, Nuremberg, Ger. Nmus.), on which he collaborated with Georg Schweigger and Christoph Ritter III (1610–76). After 1659 Pfründt worked in Heidelberg for Charles Ludwig, the Elector Palatine (reg 1649–80), and in Stuttgart for Duke Eberhard VIII of Württemberg (reg 1628–74).
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