Carl Lange (lithographer)

Johann Georg Carl Lange (* 1804 in Zwätze ; † 1874 in Jena ) was a German painter and lithographer and one of the most famous contractors for the "small art" of photolithography.

Life

Half-length portrait of Friedrich Rochlitz "en face"; Lithograph after August Böhme in the Allgemeine Musical Zeitung from 1842

Carl Lange produced portraits from 1819 until the year of his death, but little has been researched about his creative time in Jena. By 1842 at the latest he was working at the Royal Lithographic Institute in Berlin . From this period, a lithograph based on a drawing by August Böhme is known, which was reproduced as a frontispiece for the bound edition of the Allgemeine Musical Zeitung published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1842 .

After about the same time, first the daguerreotype and later the visual amplification possibilities of Carte de Visite had been invented which exposed a growing competition discovered photographers the cardboard backing for their photographs, and in particular the lapel of photo cards, increasingly as an advertising medium for their own work. From the middle of the 19th century, Carl Lange became one of the most important commissioned lithographers in Germany for the "small art" of photolithography, especially on the back of the Carte de Visites and the cabinet- sized cardboard supports .

The well-known works and lithographs with the additional print […] Lange, Berlin on Carte de Visite lapel, for example, included a “Photographisches Atelier Wilh. Gerlich, Hamburg , Grindelhof 100 ”.

literature

Lange, Johann Carl. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers , etc. Volume 7: Keyser. – Lodewyck. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1839, p. 284 ( books.google.de ).

Long, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 324 .

Web links

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

Jena from south-west Städtische Museen Jena (etching after Johann Georg Carl Lange, engraved by Johann Jakob Tanner)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Carl Lange in the picture index of art and architecture
↑ ^a ^b Danuta Thiel-Melerski: fotorevers.eu ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), privately created " Lexicon of Photographers" based on Revers
↑ Lange, carl LITHOGRAPH KUNST / in the index artists and other persons ( memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) of the Beethoven-Haus
↑ Danuta Thiel-Melerski: Gerlich (Hamburg) / photo studio on the GenWiki website (the scan of the lapel uploaded there is only very poorly resolved, making the additional print […] Lange […] hardly readable)

personal data
SURNAME	Long, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lange, Johann Georg Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zwätz
DATE OF DEATH	1874
Place of death	Jena

[Bildindex-1] Carl Lange in the picture index of art and architecture

[Danuta_Thiel-Melerski-2] Danuta Thiel-Melerski: fotorevers.eu ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), privately created " Lexicon of Photographers" based on Revers

[3] Lange, carl LITHOGRAPH KUNST / in the index artists and other persons ( memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) of the Beethoven-Haus

[4] Danuta Thiel-Melerski: Gerlich (Hamburg) / photo studio on the GenWiki website (the scan of the lapel uploaded there is only very poorly resolved, making the additional print […] Lange […] hardly readable)