Christian Ernst Stölzel

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Christian Ernst Stölzel (born February 10, 1792 in Dresden ; † April 4, 1837 there ) was a German painter , etcher and engraver .

Life

Christian Ernst Stölzel was born as the son of Christian Friedrich Stölzel , copperplate engraver and professor. He also had a brother and a sister.

He received his first school lessons with his siblings from his father; at the age of 16 he decided to become a copperplate engraver. He came to the Academy of Fine Arts to the court builder Gottlob August Hölzer , who gave him lessons in perspective. His classmates included Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau and Joseph Anton Dräger .

The following year, in 1809, he attended the winter evenings in the plastering room of the academy and in 1810 the antique cabinets .

A serious illness from 1812 to 1813 and his participation in the French campaign from 1813 to 1814 in the course of the wars of liberation cost him and his art three years.

On August 25, 1822, he began a journey on foot to Rome . He stayed there until his return to Dresden on May 15, 1828, after he had been appointed a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia in order to return to Dresden.

In 1830 he was employed as a drawing teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

The names of his students are known:

After his death, Carl Gottlieb Peschel was his successor at the academy.

He was never married in his life.

Works

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