Carl Barth

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Carl Barth
Friedrich Rückert . Original steel engraving by Carl Barth.

Carl Barth (born October 12, 1787 in Eisfeld , † September 12, 1853 in Kassel ; also Karl Barth ) was a German draftsman and engraver .

Life

Carl Barth completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith with his father in Hildburghausen . From 1805 he trained as a copperplate engraver under Johann G. von Müller in Stuttgart . From 1814 he worked in Munich and attended the art academy there.

In 1817/1818 Barth met the poet Friedrich Rückert in Rome (trip to Rome from 1817 to 1819). Barth made numerous portraits of Rückert and his children.

From 1820 he lived most of the time in Hildburghausen. Here he mainly worked for Joseph Meyer's Bibliographical Institute and created steel engravings for the Contemporary Gallery , the Classics Series and the Conversation Lexicon . In addition, he occupied himself scientifically and literarily. In 1833 and 1834, together with Friedrich Sickler and Carl Hohnbaum, he was involved in the discovery and recovery of the type material of the trace fossil Chirotherium barthii in the sandstone quarries of Heßberg , which was later named after im and is now one of the best-known tracks of primeval animals . He also translated Giuseppe Longhi's important work on engraving ( La Calcographia , 1830) into German. As he got older, he suffered from severe depression. Barth ended his life in 1853 by suicide .

The long friendship with Barth led the in Neuses near Coburg living poet Rückert to some of his frequent letters to Barth with the popularly received dictum "My dear friend and engraver" to begin.

Works

In Rome, Barth began working with Samuel Amsler on the engravings based on Cornelius ' Aventiure of the Nibelungs . The engraving The seven lean years after Overbeck is particularly emphasized from his work.

Exhibitions

  • June 15 - August 3, 2003 Hildburghausen , City Museum in the "Alte Post"
  • September 26 - November 16, 2003 Schweinfurt , Old Town Hall: Carl Barth 1787–1853

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Probst: Johann Jakob Kaup: the great natural scientist from Darmstadt. GRIN-Verlag, 2011, p. 103, ISBN 978-3-6408-4916-1
  2. ↑ Hartmut Haubold: Die Saurierfährten Chirotherium barthii Kaup, 1835 - the type material from the red sandstone near Hildburghausen / Thuringia and the "Chirotherium Monument". Publications of the Natural History Museum Schleusingen. Vol. 21, 2006, pp. 3-31
  3. ^ City of Coburg: Famous Coburgs - Friedrich Rückert, Dichter u. Orientalist

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personal data
SURNAME Barth, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Ice field
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1853
Place of death kassel