Johann Jacob
Lechner

Owner of a zincographic establishment, * around 1796 Nuremberg – † July 5, 1851 Nuremberg. Son of Johann Leonhard Sixtus. ∞ May 2, 1824 Anna Jacobina Carolina, daughter of Johann Jacob Drexel, lawyer. In the Bamberg State Library there is the list no. 1 of oil paintings ... which ... are available from Johann Jacob Lechner, antiquarian, book, art and natural history dealer in Nuremberg; he also ran a lending library. In 1829 the antiquarian bookshop was located at p. 883a (Rathausgasse 7), other business premises were at p. 639 (Paniersplatz 9) and p. 75 (Winklerstraße 37). In the 1850 address book he appears under the address L. 477 (Brunnengasse 47), and he was also described as a natural history collector. MuS: NÜRNBERG, MStN: Zinkätzungen. Lit.: Ludwig, 1998, p. 404. Exhibition: 1991/1; 2004/4, p. 112. (quoted from the Nuremberg Artists' Lexicon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb)