Egid Verhelst the Younger
Egid Verhelst the Younger , often also Verelst (born August 25, 1733 in Ettal , † January 13, 1804 in Mannheim ) was a German engraver .
life and work
Verhelst was the third son of his father of the same name, Egid Verhelst , a sculptor from Antwerp . The older brothers Ignatz (* 1726 in Munich ) and Placidus (* 1727 in Ettal) followed in their father's footsteps as sculptors, while Egid and his younger brother Aloys (* 1747 in Augsburg ) became engravers.
Verhelst learned the craft from Rudolph Starke in Augsburg, then from the well-known Johann Georg Wille in Paris .
After working as an artist in Munich , Elector Karl Theodor appointed him academy professor and court copper engraver in Mannheim, the capital of the Electoral Palatinate, in 1765 . It was here that Verhelst founded his own engraving school, which he had influenced and which was clearly related to the Parisian style. His portrait prints, in which he immortalized many of his contemporaries, were particularly famous.
After the elector's move to the now Palatinate-Bavarian capital of Munich (1777), Egid Verhelst also stayed there again for the most part.
It used to be assumed that he died on an unknown date, 1818 in Munich. In the meantime, however, his death entry, dated January 13, 1804, was discovered in the church records of the Jesuit Church in Mannheim .
Egid Verhelst was one of the teachers of the Bavarian court painter Wilhelm von Kobell , as well as Stephan von Stengel , Karl Matthias Ernst and the Mannheim copperplate engraver Heinrich Sintzenich . The Mannheim court painter Joseph Fratrel also refined his graphic skills with Egid Verhelst and is one of his students.
literature
- Ludwig Nieser: Verhelst, Egid II. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 622.
- Verelst or Verhelst, Egid. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 20, Munich 1850, pp. 93–95, with a detailed catalog of works ( books.google.de )
- Verhelst (Verelst), Egid the Elder Young. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 250 .
Web links
- Website in the portal thesaurus
- Egid Verhelst and his family in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon
- Website of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim , with a separate section about Egid Verhelst and a list of his students
Individual evidence
- ^ Yearbook for Franconian State Research . tape 19 . Degener, 1959, p. 448 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . tape 68 , new episode volume 29 . W. Kohlhammer, Heidelberg 1914, p. 576 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Fritz Milkau: Handbook of Library Science: . tape 1 . O. Harrassowitz, 1950, p. 728 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Rudolf Rieger, Claudia Valter: Wilhelm von Kobell - Master of the Watercolor . Hirmer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-3035-8 , p. 139 ( books.google.de - restricted view).
- ^ Source for the lessons of Sintzenich: Friedrich Walter: Geschichte Mannheims. Volume 1, 1907, p. 581
- ^ Joseph August Beringer : Sintzenich, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 365-367.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verhelst, Egid the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verelst, Egid the Younger; Verhelst, Egid; Verelst, Egid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1733 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ettal |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1804 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |