August Hoffmann (copper engraver)

August Hoffmann (born August 1, 1810 in Elberfeld , Grand Duchy of Berg ; † October 15, 1872 in Berlin , according to another source on October 20, 1872 ) was a German engraver from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

In the years 1829 to 1833 (according to another source from 1826 to 1839) Hoffmann was a student of Ernst Carl Thelott's copper engraving class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and received a one-year scholarship for his good performance. At the Düsseldorf Academy he had been in close contact with Joseph Keller from 1835 , who was actually in charge of Thelott's class at the time and who later became his successor.

Hoffmann stayed in Düsseldorf until 1838, where he created the engravings Kirchgeherin (Die Kirchgangerin) after Louis Ammy Blanc (1835), Abduction after Carl Friedrich Lessing (1836) and Christ in the lap of Mary (The Descent from the Cross) for the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Christi) after Wilhelm Schadow (1837), and also for Atanazy Raczyński's 1836 published volume History of Modern German Art: Düsseldorf and the Rhineland the plate Die Hussitenpredigt , also after Lessing.

In 1838 he went to Munich , then to Berlin and Paris , and finally back to Berlin. Other works mentioned in the literature for his later, technically more perfected work are Madonna with the Child and Saint Anne after Giulio Romano (1851), Flower Girl after Eduard Magnus (1852), Madonna with Saint Jerome and Francis after Raphael and Madonna with the curls after Giulio Romano. Also emphasized are his engravings, which he created between 1855 and 1857 for Wilhelm von Kaulbach 's Shakespeare Gallery in copperplate engravings with illustrations of Macbeth , Julius Caesar , The Tempest and King John . The works of Josef and his brothers after Peter von Cornelius and Charlemagne after Wilhelm von Kaulbach were also famous .

literature

Moritz Blanckarts : Hoffmann, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 572 f.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertal artist directory . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 ( review ).
^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Selection, status: November 2016; kunstpalast.de (PDF)
↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
^ Rudolf Wiegmann : The royal art academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 413 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmann, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver from the Düsseldorf School of Painting
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld , Grand Duchy of Berg
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1872
Place of death	Berlin

[Künstlerverzeichnis-1] Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertal artist directory . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 ( review ).

[2] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Selection, status: November 2016; kunstpalast.de (PDF)

[3] Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )

[4] Rudolf Wiegmann : The royal art academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 413 ( digitized version )