Adolf Gnauth Sr.

Gustav Adolf Gnauth senior (born November 18, 1812 in Dresden , † 1876 in Stuttgart ) was a German reproductive lithographer and engraver.

Life

Adolf Gnauth was born on November 18, 1812 in Dresden as the son of Karl Christoph Gnauth (1784–1845) and Christiane Sophie Hempel. From 1818 the father was the cloakroom manager at the court theater in Stuttgart. The father's brother was Eduard Gnauth (1788-1859), who from 1815 worked as a court actor in Stuttgart. Gnauth was married to Marie Kasten (1818–1868), the daughter of the Stuttgart court coppersmith Georg Christian Ludwig Kasten (1789–1861) and Eleonore Elisabeth Heyges. The marriage resulted in two sons: the architect Adolf Gnauth (1840–1884) and the politician Feodor Gnauth (1854–1916). Gnauth died in Stuttgart in 1876 at the age of 64. His wife died in 1868 at the age of 50. Gnauth had a younger brother, Karl Eduard Gnauth (born on May 15, 1816 in Tharandt, Saxony).

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Gnauth was a reproductive lithographer and engraver. In 1833 he was employed by the royal lithographic institute in Stuttgart as one of 22 lithographers, including Julius Nisle of the same age , with whom he founded the "Artistic Institute of Gnauth and Nisle".

In addition to many individual graphic sheets, for example after Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch and Gottlieb Schick , Gnauth created 92 steel engravings based on drawings by William Hogarth and 32 copper engravings for Raphael's drawings based on the novel Amor and Psyche by Apuleius. He also created 216 book illustrations for Julius Nisle: for a song book by Friedrich Güll on the Schiller Gallery, the Goethe Gallery and the Casanova Gallery.

Engravings by Gnauth after ...
… Julius Nisle, Casanova Gallery, Giulietta, the stain cleaner.
… Julius Nisle, Goethe Gallery, Faust-Mephisto pact with the devil .
… Julius Nisle, Schiller Gallery, The Robbers .
… William Hogarth, Marriage According to Fashion.

literature

Gnauth, Adolf (Gustav Ad.) . 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. 275 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Adolf Gnauth sen. - Collection of images

Remarks

↑ ^a ^b Friedrich Knöpp: Gnauth, Feodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 483 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ ^a ^b Gnauth, Adolf (Gustav Ad.) . 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. 275 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Finding aid E 173 III: Bü 4319 (1837-1838). Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archive Ludwigsburg, accessed on February 13, 2019 (starting with: Citizenship and military obligations of ...).
^ W. Hogarth's drawings. Engraved in steel from the originals. With the full explanation of the same by GC Lichtenberg, edited and continued by Franz Kottenkamp. Literatur-Comptoir, Stuttgart 1840, ( books.google.de ).
↑ Psyche. Thirty-two compositions based on the fairy tale of Apulejus . Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1854, OCLC 604178747 (engraved by Adolf Gnauth. With a title page and a sheet of explanations of the copper plates and 32 engraved plates).

personal data
SURNAME	Gnauth, Adolf Sr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gnauth, Gustav Adolf senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German reproductive lithographer and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	1876
Place of death	Stuttgart

[NDB-1] Friedrich Knöpp: Gnauth, Feodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 483 f. ( Digitized version ).

[ThiemeBecker-2] Gnauth, Adolf (Gustav Ad.) . 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. 275 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] Finding aid E 173 III: Bü 4319 (1837-1838). Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archive Ludwigsburg, accessed on February 13, 2019 (starting with: Citizenship and military obligations of ...).

[4] W. Hogarth's drawings. Engraved in steel from the originals. With the full explanation of the same by GC Lichtenberg, edited and continued by Franz Kottenkamp. Literatur-Comptoir, Stuttgart 1840, ( books.google.de ).

[5] Psyche. Thirty-two compositions based on the fairy tale of Apulejus . Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1854, OCLC 604178747 (engraved by Adolf Gnauth. With a title page and a sheet of explanations of the copper plates and 32 engraved plates).