Adolf Eltzner

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Adolf Eltzner (1869)
Photograph by Adolf Eltzner (self-portrait), around 1880

Christian Adolf Eltzner (born June 26, 1816 in Leipzig ; † September 6, 1891 there ) was a German copper and steel engraver , draftsman and photographer .

Life

Eltzner was the son of a master tanner . He first learned to be a carpenter, traveled to many cities in Europe as a journeyman from 1836 and returned to Leipzig in 1840. There he completed a second apprenticeship as a steel engraver. In 1846 he started his own business and ran a steel engraving workshop at Zeitzer Straße 9. Eltzner specialized in the representation of city views from a bird's eye view . His bird gazing on the basis of city maps and city floor plans appeared mainly in the Illustrirten Zeitung and in the illustrated family paper Die Gartenlaube . His steel engravings were mostly published by the Albert Henry Payne Art Institute .

Eltzner's bird charts are verifiable from numerous cities, e. B. from Hamburg , Bremen , Hanover , Kassel , Stettin , Augsburg or Nuremberg . He created bird charts, panoramic views and over 200 small vedutas (mainly colored pen and ink drawings and watercolors ) of city quarters, squares and buildings of the Leipzig cityscape and thus became an exact city chronicler of the second half of the 19th century. Since the mid-1850s, he was increasingly active as a photographer.

Work (selection)

  • Panorama of Leipzig, drawn by Eltzner, engraved by Friedrich Salathé, lithograph, 1846
  • View of Hamburg, wood engraving, 1849
  • Bremen from a bird's eye view, lithograph, 1849/1851
  • Bird chart of Leipzig, colored engraving, 1850
  • Old town hall and market in Leipzig, steel engraving , 1850
  • View from the west of Hanover , steel engraving ( bird's eye view ), 1851
  • View of the Catholic Church in Leipzig, drawing, around 1850 (?)
  • Dresden seen from the balloon , drawn by Heinrich Walter, engraved by Eltzner, colored lithograph, 1852
  • Panorama of Augustusplatz in Leipzig with the New Theater , Museum and Augusteum , lithograph, around 1860
  • Bird's diagram of Szczecin , drawn by Eltzner, steel engraving , 1860

Images (selection)

  • Panorama of Leipzig, 1846

  • Panorama of Leipzig, taken in Niesen's house, 1846

  • Leipzig around 1848, pen drawing

  • Panorama of Szczecin in Leipzig, before 1880

  • Brühl in Leipzig, before 1880

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Eltzner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 232 f. (with a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl and a double-sided illustration of the bird's eye view)
personal data
SURNAME Eltzner, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eltzner, Christian Adolf (full name); Eltzner, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German copper and steel engraver, draftsman and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1891
Place of death Leipzig