August Seyffer

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Friedrich August Seyffer (born August 9, 1774 in Lauffen am Neckar , † August 15, 1845 in Stuttgart ) was a German engraver , draftsman and painter .

Tübingen from the west (copper engraving by FA Seyfferts after a drawing by the court painter Keller)

Life

August Seyffer was a son of the Oberamtmann and Hofrat Johann Friedrich Seyffer and a brother of Ernst Eberhard Seyffer . He attended the High Charles School and was a student of Johann Gotthard Müller at the Stuttgart Copper Engraving Institute, which was set up on the initiative of Carl Eugen . In 1802 he went on a study trip to Vienna and was trained by Martin von Molitor .

From around 1807 he worked in Cannstatt and from 1816 in Stuttgart. Among other things, he worked as a draftsman for the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory. He concentrated on the representation of buildings and other sights, especially caves in Württemberg, and from 1820 published the series of publications, Regions from Württemberg . In 1822 he became inspector of the royal cabinet of engravings; At times he also taught copper engraving in Stuttgart.

Works (selection)

The Rauber (Diepoldsburg)
  • 1807–16 The castle in Kirchheim unter Teck (watercolor with pen and ink drawing; inscribed on the reverse: "Recorded & painted by the painter & engraver A. Seyffer in Canstadt")
  • 1813 Marbach. Birthplace of Friedrich Schiller and Tobias Mayer (colored copper engraving)
  • around 1813 View of the ancestral castle Württemberg (copper engraving)
  • around 1814 Der Rauber (brush drawing)
  • around 1815 Bruderhöhle near Hirsau (sepia watercolor)
  • Schelklingen Castle April 22, 1818 from the east (pencil drawing)

literature

  • Max Schefold (1960), Friedrich August Seyffer: engraver and landscape painter, 1774-1845 . In: Gerhard Taddey and Max Miller (eds.): Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia , Vol. 7, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 190–194.
  • August Wintterlin:  Seyffer, Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 107.

Web links

Commons : August Seyffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pro Alt Cannstatt
  2. ↑ Mehlis ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mehlis.eu
  3. ↑ Review in the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung
  4. ↑ Stuttgart Memorial Day Calendar
  5. ↑ Conversations-Lexikon der newest Zeit und Literatur , Leipzig 1842 f., P. 619 f.
  6. ↑ icollector.com
  7. ↑ Web newspaper Ludwigsburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.webzeitung-lb.de  
  8. ^ Advertisement in the Morgenblatt for educated stands
  9. ↑ lochstein.de
personal data
SURNAME Seyffer, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyffer, Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauffen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1845
Place of death Stuttgart