Andreas Friedrich Kornacher
Andreas Friedrich Kornacher (born November 30, 1808 in Schweinfurt ; † 1857 there ) was a German landscape painter, etcher and photographer.
Andreas Friedrich Kornacher was born as the son of the businessman H. Christoph Gottlieb Kornacher and his wife J. Rosina Barbara. He started painting as an autodidact . In 1827 he made a trip to the Rhine and to Nuremberg,
Kornacher studied from May 2, 1833 painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . His Schweinfurt friend Christoph Heinrich Stössel also studied at the Munich Academy from November 5, 1834.
Kornacher broke off his studies after a few months and was employed as a drawing teacher at the trade school in Schweinfurt. He visited Venice in 1834 and the Palatinate and Swabia in 1835 .
He worked as a painter and graphic artist. In 1834 he created the decorations for the 200th anniversary of the Schweinfurt high school.
He provided numerous illustrations for the Schweinfurt art publisher, which was active from 1843 to 1845. Its numerous cityscapes and vedute form important documents of the cityscape of Schweinfurt in the Biedermeier period.
Together with his second wife Elisabeth Margarete Pöhlmann, Kornacher set up a photo studio in Hellersgasse. After his death this was continued by the widow together with the lithographer Georg Bauer.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Kornacher, Andreas Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927.
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| SURNAME | Kornacher, Andreas Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter, eraser and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1857 |
| Place of death | Schweinfurt |