Alexander Rordorf
Alexander Rordorf (born April 16, 1820 in Zurich , † November 9, 1909 in Cologne ) was a Swiss painter , copper and steel engraver and teacher of drawing .
Life
Rordorf was the son of a master saddler . In 1832 the “ Zürcherisches Wochen-Blatt ” recorded an “ orphan ” Alexander Rordorf as the winner at the boys' shooting event . Rordorf was initially a student of C. G. Oberkogler . From mid-1838 to the end of 1844, Rordorf studied at the Art Academy in Munich under Professor Samuel Amsler .
In 1848 Rordorf went to Paris and then moved alternately to Zurich, Munich , Düsseldorf and Cologne . In 1866 he took painting lessons from K. Jungmann in order to teach drawing himself from 1870 to 1875 in Würzburg . Finally he moved back to Cologne, where he died in 1909.
Works
Bertha von Bruneck , illustration by Rordorf from the Schiller Gallery after a painting by Friedrich Pecht , around 1859
- 1846 The Adoration of the Magi according to Ulrich Halbreiter
- In 1848 Rordorf drew a portrait of the Swiss general Guillaume-Henri Dufour in Bern, "after nature" , which he engraved in Munich in January 1848, shortly after Dufour, as a general in the Sonderbund War, had crushed the secession movement of the seven Catholic federal cantons .
- For the Schiller Gallery , which appeared in 1869, Rordorf created various engravings based on drawings by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg (including Bertha von Bruneck ).
- Together with Carl Arnold Gonzenbach , Rordorf created an illustration for Dante's Divina Commedia based on an oil painting by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein that hangs in the Grand Ducal Palace delle Crociette in Florence .
- In the Manskopf Collection of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main there is a handwritten subtitled bust of a woman from Dessauer von Rordorf based on a model by Wilhelm von Kaulbach with the title Dessauer, Bust, Profile.
- The king in Thüle also after Wilhelm von Kaulbach
- Rordorf provided work on the work Die Geschichte des Deutschen Volkes in fifteen sheets urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10047717-2 , published in 1854 .
- The Bildarchiv Foto Marburg attributed to Rordorf a steel engraving published in 1880 based on a template attributed to Johann Jakob Tanner called View of Cologne from Deutz, from the Bayenturm to the cathedral, plus 14 smaller views , which is in the possession of the Cologne City Museum .
literature
- Josef Maillinger: Alexander Rordorf . In: Picture Chronicle of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Munich ... Volume 1 . Montmorillon, Munich 1876, p. 227, 258 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Rordorf, Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 590 .
- Friedrich Pecht: List of illustrations. In: Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg, fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1859 (pages without number directly after the foreword, books.google.de ).
Web links
Commons : Alexander Rordorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Rordorf. In: Carl Vogel von Vogelstein, The main moments from Goethe's Faust, Dante's Divina Commedia and Virgil's Aeneis. A documentation, Prof. Dr. Wulf D. v. Dedicated to Lucius , on Goethezeitportal .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rordorf, Alexander. In: Sikart (as of: 2018)
- ↑ a b Friedrich Pecht: List of Figures. In: Schiller Gallery ...
- ↑ a b c d e Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Rordorf. In: Carl Vogel von Vogelstein ...
- ↑ a b 02696 Alexander Rordorf . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 1: 1809-1841 . Munich ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- ^ Zürcherisches Wochen-Blatt . No. 70 , 1832 ( books.google.de - restricted view).
- ↑ Dessauer, portrait, profile.
- ↑ The British Museum : The history of the German people in fifteen sheets ( The History of the German nation in 15 sheets )
- ^ View of Cologne from Deutz, ... bildindex.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rordorf, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter, copper and steel engraver and teacher of drawing |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1909 |
| Place of death | Cologne |