Carl Friedrich Irminger

Carl Friedrich Irminger (born November 8, 1813 in Aadorf , † March 27, 1863 in Zurich ; also Karl Friedrich Irminger , often just CF Irminger in signatures ) was a Swiss draftsman , lithographer and engraver .

Carl Friedrich Irminger as a militant (drawing by Johannes Ruff, 1845)

The artist signature CFIrminger fe

His signature as a lithographer

life and work

Carl Friedrich Irminger created numerous portrait drawings in the form of miniatures , lithographed portraits , watercolors and caricatures of the Swiss military. His work was also published in the Zürcher Neujahrsblätter. But they were also known abroad and were used as a frontispiece . In the 1850s he worked with the painter and photographer Heinrich Schweikert (1830–1914) and ran the Irminger & Schweikert Photographische Anstalt studio with him in Zurich .

William Shakespeare (steel engraving, c. 1838)
Theodor von Karajan (lithograph 1847)
Jakob Stämpfli (lithograph, ca.1850)
Karl Ludwig von Haller (lithograph, ca.1850)
New Year's sheet of the Zurich City Library (preliminary drawing, approx. 1860)

literature

Irminger, Karl Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926.
Irminger, Karl (Carl) Friedrich. In: Sikart (as of: 2018), accessed on March 24, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Carl Friedrich Irminger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Carl Friedrich Irminger in the catalog of the German National Library
Irminger, Karl Friedrich in the German biography
Karl Friedrich Irmiger on artnet

Individual evidence

^ Johann Nepomuk Vogl (Red.): Künstlerischer Wegweiser. In: Oesterreichisches Morgenblatt , April 7, 1847, p. 167 (online at ANNO ). «(Friedr. Irminger,) a Swiss citizen, known in the art world for his beautiful portrait drawings on parchment, as well as for lithographs and etchings, has the portrait of the art dealer Mor. Biermann completed on stone. "Template: ANNO / maintenance / osm
↑ E.g. Dziel Wilhelma Shakspear (Polish Shakespeare edition from 1839 with the portrait of Szekspir )
↑ René Perret: Striking similarity. Pioneers of Swiss photography. Pictures of the beginnings. BEA-und-Poly-Verl., Brugg 1991, ISBN 3-905177-00-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Irminger, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Irminger, Karl Friedrich; Irminger, CF; Irminger, F .; Irminger, Fried.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss draftsman, lithographer and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aadorf
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1863
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Johann Nepomuk Vogl (Red.): Künstlerischer Wegweiser. In: Oesterreichisches Morgenblatt , April 7, 1847, p. 167 (online at ANNO ). «(Friedr. Irminger,) a Swiss citizen, known in the art world for his beautiful portrait drawings on parchment, as well as for lithographs and etchings, has the portrait of the art dealer Mor. Biermann completed on stone. "Template: ANNO / maintenance / osm

[2] E.g. Dziel Wilhelma Shakspear (Polish Shakespeare edition from 1839 with the portrait of Szekspir )

[3] René Perret: Striking similarity. Pioneers of Swiss photography. Pictures of the beginnings. BEA-und-Poly-Verl., Brugg 1991, ISBN 3-905177-00-5 .