Christian Andreas Besemann
Christian Andreas Besemann (born August 5, 1760 in Göttingen ; † October 25, 1818 there ) was a German draftsman, engraver and painter. As a university drawing master, he illustrated numerous scientific publications for the professors of the Georgia Augusta .
Life
The family relationships in the Besemann family of artists were often the cause of biographical mix-ups and the resulting incorrect attributions. Christian Besemann himself was born out of wedlock, but could be the son of Heinrich Besemann , who also worked in Göttingen, who was also working as a copper engraver in Göttingen at the same time. Christian Andreas Besemann is probably identical to L. Besemann described in Thieme-Becker and the General Artists' Lexicon . He is the father of the copper engraver and later lithographer Friedrich Besemann , who also worked in Göttingen, and the painter Adolf Besemann . There are frequent mix-ups and incorrect attributions between Christian Andreas and Friedrich Besemann.
Besemann enrolled as a student. math. 1789 in Göttingen and at the same time began working as a draftsman for the university, in 1806 he was employed as a university draftsman. As a draftsman, he also provided the professors with illustrations for their publications. For Georg Franz Hoffmann's work Hortus Gottingensis , published in 1793, he provided two views of the Old Botanical Garden of the Georg August University. In 1794/95 he illustrated Friedrich Benjamin Osiander's memorabilia for medicine and obstetrics .
As a landscape eraser, Besemann created small portfolios, some of which he also colored by hand. In 1795 he created views of the Weser , consisting of six sheets, and probably at the same time motifs from the Harz Mountains. In 1817 he created New Views of Göttingen and the surrounding area consisting of twelve sheets. In addition, from 1800 onwards he improved his income with the family book sheets , which were particularly popular with students and which had come up from 1770 by the Göttingen bookbinder and printer Johannes Carl Wiederhold (1743–1826). About 30 different motifs of these small-format engravings are known from him.
In Göttingen Besemann (and his son Friedrich) competed with the university engraver Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen, who was about the same age .
literature
- Otto Deneke : Göttingen artist. Göttingen 1936, pp. 97-107.
- Besemann, Christian Andreas. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL), Volume X, 1995, p. 184.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Vollmer : Besemann, L. In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 527 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Besemann . In: Julius Meyer, Georg Kaspar Nagler (Hrsg.): General Artist Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition. tape 3 : Giambattista Barbieri - Giuseppe Bezzuoli . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1885, OCLC 257802895 , p. 739 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Besemann, Christian Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman, engraver and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1818 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |