SHONEBEK (Shhonebek, Shonebeek) Adrian (Schoonebeeck Adriaan)

March 28, 1661 (Rotterdam) - September 1705 (Moscow)

Engraver

He studied at the Romaine de Hogg. At the time of Peter I in the Netherlands in January 1698 to teach his technique of engraving on copper under Shonebeka Peter I fulfilled etching "The victory of Orthodoxy over Mohammedanism. In May of that year Shonebek was invited to the Russian service with a salary of 600 efimikov year. Led engraving shop Armory Museum in Moscow. Taught engraving P. Pikart, JF and AF Zubov, P. Bunin, V. Tomilova,

worked in the field of original prints (ie prints of their own figure) in the form of etchings, tool, occasionally turned to the technique of mezzotint. Engraved stamps for stamped paper. During the period of stay in Russia, made around 60 tracks (including 42 illustrations to the book "History of the ordinate or the military rank ..." Moscow, 1710). The best works Shonebeka - portraits PB Sheremetyev (1702, known in single copy), Peter I (between 1703 and 1705), an allegory on the capture of fortress of Azov and the nut with a portrait of Peter I (1699), the composition " Capture of Azov in 1699 "(1699)," Description of the wedding jester Theophylact Shansky "(two sheets: male and female half, 1702)," Taking Noteburg "(1703)," Images of victory over the Swedish fleet on the river Amovzhe "(1704) , "Map of the Azov Sea" (1704).

Shonebek - one of the greatest masters of engraving in Russia at the beginning of XVIII century, which has had a significant impact on the further development of this art form. During his stay in Russia had become the engraving of the leading place in the arts, serving as propaganda, popularization of achievements of the State, the glorification of the victories of the army and navy. Big role belongs Shonebeku in the management of Russian masters of European art of language: even the purely utilitarian things such as maps, interpret them as works of art, supplied a complex design with allegorical figures, expanded symbols, with a variety of decorative motifs.

found out later reprints from the master prints made with the already worn-boards in the middle - second half of XVIII century - they differ overall unevenness of tone, the presence of random grooves (scratches), bad propechatkoy individual parts.

Shonebeka works are in many museum collections in Russia and abroad, including the State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin State Museum of History, State Hermitage Museum and others.