Blasius Hofel

Ludwig van Beethoven, color lithograph by Blasius Höfel after the drawing by Louis Letronne, 1814

Blasius Höfel (born May 27, 1792 in Vienna , † September 17, 1863 in Aigen near Salzburg ) was an Austrian engraver .

Life

From 1805 Blasius Höfel studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Hubert Maurer . From 1807 he mainly devoted himself to copper engraving . His best-known work is a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven , with whom he also met personally. Höfel's copperplate was created in 1814 on behalf of the Artaria & Comp publishing house . based on a drawing by Louis Letronne . From 1820 to 1837 he worked as a drawing teacher at the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . On a study trip to Germany he met Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz and then dealt with various woodcut techniques . He invented line etching around 1840 .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Höfel, Blasius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, pp. 93–97 ( digitized version ).
• Josef Wünsch: Blasius Höfel. History of his life and his art and directory of his works , Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna 1910 ( online version )
• Hofel Blasius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 349 f. (Direct links on p. 349 , p. 350 ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) And a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 455-458.