Carl Frosch (copperplate engraver)

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Carl Frosch (* 1771 in Halle an der Saale ; † in the 19th century) was a German engraver .

Life and works

Carl Frosch probably received his training at the Art Academy in Leipzig , where he can be proven to have been an engraver since 1796. He worked as an illustrator and engraver. One of his main themes was architecture: Among other things, he created ten sheets on Gothic and five sheets on Egyptian architecture in 1798 and a further 18 illustrations on the history of architecture in 1800. Various depictions of war scenes come from Frosch, e. B. Prince Schwarzenberg before the allies. Monarchs near Leipzig on Oct. 18, 1813 and the last battles of the retiring French armies on Oct. 19, 1813 behind Leipzig based on Lehmann's drafts. He depicted the triumphal arch erected on the Leipzig market in 1818 to celebrate the anniversary of the reign of the Saxon king twice. The building inspector and architect August Wilhelm Kanne designed this arch ; Frosch's engravings appeared in a separate envelope with title and text. Another focus of his work was, in addition to various illustrations for almanacs and novels, depictions of natural history. His later publications include the studies for horse draftsmen published in Leipzig in 1827 .

Some works with illustrations by Frosch's hand were on view in the exhibition Useful Pleasures in the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen 2004/05.

Copper engravings in fonts (selection)

  • Johann Gottfried Grohmann: Fragments of the Gothic architecture: collected and dedicated to the study of the architects and the pleasure of lovers . Engraved by [Carl] Frosch and [Gottlieb Wilhelm] Hüllmann. tape 2 . Baumgärtnersche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1799 ( deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de ).
  • Copper engraving - The Münster Church in Ulm [approx. 1825] OCLC 729981936 ( digital.wlb-stuttgart.de )
  • A copper engraving by Matthias Corvinus based on a model from the Vienna Art Collection was made by him and marked “Frosch. sc. » signed. It was in a reduced form in the work The History of Hungarians and their Country People. Reprinted by JA Fessler in Leipzig in 1822.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Frosch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of death is e.g. E.g. the DNB assumes the year 1827, in other sources the date of death remains open.
  2. ↑ Elmar Mittler, Wolfgang Wangerin (Ed.): Useful pleasure. Children's and young people's books from the Enlightenment period from the holdings of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen and the Vordemann collection. Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-930457-65-2 ( uni-goettingen.de digitized version ).
  3. ↑ 31. Vienna Kunsthistorische Portraitsammlung  - Internet Archive , mentions Carl Frosch… on p. 500, painting (no. 32) illustration p. 495.
personal data
SURNAME Frog, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frog, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 19th century