Christian Friedrich Fritzsch

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Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (* approx. 1719 in Hamburg ; † before 1774) was a German engraver.

Life

Fritzsch was the son of the engraver Christian Fritzsch , and his younger brother Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch also became a copperplate engraver. Both learned the profession as a child from their father in his workshop in Schiffbek . Christian Friedrich Fritzsch temporarily worked as a university engraver at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he signed the portrait of the fencing master Anton Friedrich Kahn (1713–1797) with the addition “Acad. Goetting. Sculptor ". Together with his brother, he was probably busy in Amsterdam from 1742 to 1772 for various publishers, creating book illustrations.

literature

  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 12, Leipzig 1916, p. 501

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The beginnings of the art of fencing: together with a preface On the benefits of the art of fencing and the advantages of this instruction , published by Anthon Friedrich Kahn Fechtmeister at the Georgius Augustus University in Göttingen, Schultze, Göttingen 1739
personal data
SURNAME Fritzsch, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritsch, Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH before 1774