Carl August Richter

Carl August Richter: On the Fire , 1818

Carl August Richter: Panorama from the dome of the Frauenkirche in Dresden , 1824

Carl August Richter (born March 11, 1770 in Wachau (Saxony) , † October 19, 1848 in Dresden ) was a German draftsman , etcher and engraver of the Romantic period and the father of the landscape painter Ludwig Richter .

Life

Carl August Richter, a son of the engraver Heinrich Carl Richter , grew up in the village of Wachau not far from the city of Dresden. In 1793 Richter began studying at the Dresden Art Academy , which by the end of the 18th century had developed into an important center for the visual arts and at the same time was a center of the emerging Romanticism. Richter's teacher at the academy was the Swiss draftsman Adrian Zingg , with whom he developed an intense friendship. Together with the innovative pro-romantic Zingg, Richter traveled to Saxon Switzerland , which he immortalized in numerous drawings and graphics. From 1810 Richter himself worked as a professor for copperplate engraving at the art academy.

meaning

With their works, Zingg and Richter made a significant contribution to the popularity that the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and especially Saxon Switzerland were to enjoy among romantics such as Carl Gustav Carus , Caspar David Friedrich and Ernst Ferdinand Oehme . From Zingg, Richter took on a romantically transfiguring view of real landscapes, which was to be formative for the entire romanticism. Ludwig Richter, the much better known son of Carl August Richter, was influenced by his father's style, especially in his landscape drawings and graphics. Other well-known students of Carl August Richter were Carl Wagner and Carl Götzloff .

literature

• Adrian Zingg. Trailblazer of Romanticism . Sandstein Verlag Dresden, 2012. ISBN 978-3-942422-86-4 .
• Ludwig Richter. The painter . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2004. ISBN 3-422-06430-3 .

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