Adam Goswin Glaser

Adam Goswin Glaser (born August 17, 1815 in Dorsten ; † February 24, 1900 in Düsseldorf ) was a German steel and copper engraver from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Glaser, the son of a craftsman, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1835 to 1844 after attending Sunday school, where he showed a talent for drawing . There he was one of the first students of Joseph Keller , who founded a well-known copper engraving school at the Düsseldorf Academy and is one of the main players in the association for the dissemination of religious images . He also introduced Glaser to reproducing religious prints in his strict, pure line manner. For the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images, Glaser created several plates for small-format images of saints , including the motif Maria vom Gute Rat . Glaser stayed in Düsseldorf and married Elisabeth Brackel († 1867) on April 30, 1844. The couple had several children. From 1844 Glaser produced several commissioned works for the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . He found great recognition for the engraving The Adoration of the Three Magi after Francesco Francia , completed around 1850 , to which he went to Dresden in 1845 and developed a drawing as a template for the art publisher Ernst Arnold in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister . Orders from other publishers followed, such as the art publisher Otto Joseph Rings in Düsseldorf. Glaser was one of the founding members of the Malkasten artists' association , to which he belonged from 1848 to 1854 and from 1859 to 1870. This association owns a portrait that Joseph Kehren painted of him in 1851. The King of Prussia, who acquired several engravings from him, honored him with the Golden Medal for Art for his work .

Work (selection)

Glaser mostly created large-format pictures with biblical histories based on paintings by old masters as well as models from contemporary main representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Painting.

• The Madonna as Queen of Heaven after Ernst Deger
• Annunciation according to Ernst Deger, 1844
• The Adoration of the Magi after Francesco Francia , 1845–1850
• The cross-tow to Paolo Veronese
• Annunciation Mariae after Ernst Deger, steel engraving, around 1860, annual gift for the members of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia
• The interest penny after Titian , around 1860, annual gift 1861 for the members of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia
• The good shepherd after Joseph Kehren
• The youth at Nain after Peter Joseph Molitor
• The mourning Jews according to Eduard Bendemann

literature

• Glaser, Adam Goswin. In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 56: Glandorf – Goepfart. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2007, pp. 23–24 (excerpt, books.google.de ).
• Glaser, Adam Goswin . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 236 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Aloys Apell: Handbook for engraving collectors, or lexicon of the most excellent engravers of the XIX. Century, which worked in line style, as well as description of their best and most sought-after sheets. Alexander Danz, Leipzig 1880, p. 177.

Web links

• Glaser, Adam Goswin , biography in the portal dorsten-lexikon.de
• Adam Glaser , biography in the portal voh-dorsten.de (Association for local and local history Dorsten eV)
• Adam Glaser , data sheet in the portal britishmuseum.org ( British Museum )
• Glaser, Adam Goswin , death note in the portal wgff-tz.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Andresen (adaptation): Handbook for copper engravers or lexicon of copper engravers, painter-erasers and shape cutters of all countries and schools according to their most valued sheets and works. TO Weigel, Leipzig 1870 p. 583 ( books.google.de ).
2. ↑ Glaser's Annunciation Mariae ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal voh-dorsten.de (Association for Orts- und Heimatpflege Dorsten eV), accessed on December 26, 2016.