Johannes Walch (November 25, 1757 - March 23, 1815) was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of abusinessman, amateur painter and engraver Sebastian Walch; he received training as a miniature painter in Augsburg, Geneva and the Vienna Art Academy. After a two-year trip to Italy, he settled in Augsburg, where he married the eldest daughter of the Augsburg-based engraver and publisher Johann Martin Will, and worked in his father-in-law's publishing house. His contributions led the publisher to focus more heavily on As a result, the publisher increasingly turned to map production, heavily supported by the acquisition of material from Lotter and Seutter. After Will's death in 1806, Walch inherited the firm and continued to increase its importance as a map publisher. His son Johann Sebastian Walch (1787–1840) would inherit the publishing house.



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