Charles Fuchs
Carl Friedrich Fuchs (born October 28, 1803 in Bordeaux , † March 5, 1874 in Hamburg ) was a lithographer and photographer in Hamburg.
Life
Carl Friedrich Fuchs grew up in Hamburg under difficult family circumstances at the beginning of the 19th century . He came to Frankfurt am Main at the age of 25 through not always well-known stations . There he learned the art of lithography from Br. Emile Simon from Strasbourg . A little later he married his daughter and Frenchized his first name.
Charles Fuchs Institute of Lithography
Charles Fuchs opened a lithographic institute in Hamburg around 1832, as the Speckter family had been granted the privilege of being the only one to produce lithographs in 1828 . Fuchs quickly succeeded in becoming one of the most important lithographers in Hamburg - alongside the brothers Christoffer, Cornelius and Peter Suhr .
After the death of Charles Fuchs in 1874, a son-in-law ran the lithographic establishment until shortly after the turn of the century. Numerous views of the city and buildings of Hamburg, which the vernacular calls " Hamburgensie ", bear the words "Druck des Lith. Inst. V. Ch. Fuchs, Hamburg ”and have been preserved to this day. Friedrich Wilhelm Graupenstein had his lithographs printed in the institution, so that portraits of many Hamburg personalities also bear the lettering.
Portraits
- Portrait of Charles Fuchs , Ch. Fuchs (Hamburg), Lithographische Anstalt, (factual place of origin :) Hamburg around 1840, lithograph, 308 × 253 mm, ( online digital portrait index, photo archive photo Marburg )
literature
- Jan Zimmermann : Charles Fuchs, with lens and brush . Hamburg in early photographs by Charles Fuchs. Ed. from HSH Nordbank AG, exhibition period July 18 to November 21, 2003.
- Ursula Peters: Style history of photography in Germany, 1839–1900 . 424 pages with 410 illustrations. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1979.
- Dr. E. Zimmermann: History of lithography in Hamburg . Festschrift for the secular celebration of the invention of lithography in Hamburg, July 1896. Ed. written by and on behalf of the Exhibition and Festschrift Committee. Self-published by the committee for the secular celebration, Carl Griese , Hamburg 1896.
- Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , Die Bildenden Künstler Vol. 1, edit. by a committee of the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg, 1854, p. 81, ( online Hamburg State and University Library).
- Literature by and about Charles Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuchs, Carl Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lithographer and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1874 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |