Aloys Keßler
Aloys Keßler (born October 16, 1777 in Tennenbach ; † 1820 ) was a German draftsman and engraver .
Life
Aloys Keßler was trained by Johann Gotthard Müller and worked in Stuttgart . He may have died in Freiburg im Breisgau .
Works
One of his early works is an engraving from one of the bas-reliefs on the monument to the tenderness of the spouse and love of the people by Philipp Jakob Scheffauer after a drawing by Jakob Gauermann . Well-known are his portrait of Stéphanie de Beauharnais after the painting by Johann Heinrich Schröder and the engraving The Death of Major Pierson after John Singleton Copley . Like his teacher Müller, Keßler also reproduced the picture The Battle at Bunkers Hill by John Trumbull . Engravings by Aloys Keßler can also be found in Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker's Augusteum ou, Description des monuments antiques qui se trouvent à Dresden from 1804.
literature
- Kessler, Aloys . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 209 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kessler, Aloys |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kessler, Alois; Kessler, Alois; Kessler, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tennenbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1820 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Freiburg im Breisgau |