Klauber (German engravers)

• Joseph Sebastian Klauber, engraver.
  He was first a disciple of one Melchior Rein, later of at Prague.
• Johann Baptist Klauber, engraver.
  Both brothers were Hofkupferstecher der Kurfürsten von Trier and produced mainly images of saints in a factory-like way. In 1757, a picture bible of 100 engravings was produced.
• Joachim Klauber, a priest, their brother, a monk in Scheyern abbey.
• * Franz Xaver Klauber, engraver
  "who studied in Rome for a considerable time".
• * Ignaz Sebastian Klauber was the most renowned member of his family. He first studied with his father, then went to Rome, then to Paris to study with Johann Georg Wille. He was accepted at the Paris Academy and became Graveur du Roi soon later, but went back to Augsburg during French Revolution, moved on to Nuremberg and finally, in 1796, to St. Petersburg, where he became engraver of the court and director of the Academy of Engravers. He very probably died in St. Petersburg.
• *One Katharina Klauber, engraver.
  No precise details; there are sources which call her a pseudonyme of Ignaz Sebastian.