Carl Glissmeyer (goldsmith)

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Carl Glissmeyer (also: Carl Glißmeyer ; * April 30, 1831 , † after 1866 ) was a German goldsmith .

Life

Carl Glissmeyer can be traced back to the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover for the period from 1845 to 1866 . In Hanover, he completed an apprenticeship with Ernst Heinrich August Baumgarte , the city's master goldsmith and later gold worker. During his wanderings, Glissmeyer visited the cities of Kassel, Copenhagen, Geneva, Stuttgart and Vienna as a journeyman and also migrated to Italy.

1860 Glissmeyer created his masterpiece to which, among others, a gold, engraved and enameled snuff box belonged. However, the work was not recognized in Hanover, but in Braunschweig . In 1861 he was appointed master.

Archival material

Archival material from and about Carl Glissmeyer can be found, for example

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e C. R .: Glissmeyer (Glismeyer), Carl , in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon . The visual artists of all times and countries , Volume 56, Munich; Leipzig: KG Saur, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22740-0 (complete edition) and ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 (single volume), p. 175; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Wolfgang Scheffler : Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony, data, works, characters , Volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1965, p. 778; limited preview in Google Book search