Christian Koeck

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Christian Koeck (* 1758 in Mainz ; † 1818 in Munich , according to other sources also 1825) was a German modeler and draftsman during the Enlightenment and the reformed French education system of the revolutionary era .

Life

Christian Koeck enjoyed an artistic training as a modeler with the well-known sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon in Paris, where he was made familiar with anatomy. Before he was appointed to a drawing professorship at the école centrale des Département du Mont-Tonnerre, he worked as a draftsman and lithographer in Mainz. His achievements in the field of scientific copper engraving were of lasting importance for medicine. His anatomical illustrations and the production of plastic models, which he carried out in a congenial manner for Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring from 1793, are particularly important . The copper engraving in Sömmering's work On the Effects of the Lace-Up Chests of 1793 established a fruitful collaboration with the anatomist, which was not interrupted by Mainz (1797–1813) during the French period .

His drawing lessons for the French administration in Mainz included the "art of drawing in particular". The drawing lessons were integrated into the “fine arts and fine sciences” taught at the central school. Since the école centrale only existed for five years in Mayence [= Mainz], Koeck was unfortunately unable to develop a well-founded educational concept.

Engravings for Soemmerring's works

Facial organ profile
  • De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani , Frankfurt am Main 1795
  • About the organ of the soul , Königsberg 1796 (with a contribution by Immanuel Kant).
  • Tabula sceleti feminini , Frankfurt am Main 1798
  • Icones embryonum humanorum , Frankfurt am Main 1799
  • Images of the human eye , Frankfurt am Main 1801 here among other things "Profile of the facial organ viewed from the left", copperplate engraving by Christian Koeck after Klauber from Samuel Thomas Soemmerring "Images of the human eye", 1801 (West Prussian State Museum, Münster)
  • Images of the human hearing organ , Frankfurt am Main, 1806
  • Illustrations of the human organ of taste and voice , Frankfurt am Main 1806
  • Illustrations of the human organs of smell , 1809
  • Animal studies in Soemmerring's register 1774–1804
  • “The beautiful Mainzerin”, engraving by Christian Koeck from Samuel Thomas Soemmerring “Tabula sceleti feminini iuncta descriptione”, 1797

anatomy

  • Carl Wenzel: About the diseases on the backbone. Bamberg, Wesche, 1824. With 8 folded copper plates

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Koeck, Christian Künstler (1759 - 1825) in CERL Thesaurus
  2. ^ Armin Geus: Christian Koeck (1758-1818), the illustrator Samuel Thomas Sömmerring. In: Gunter Mann / Franz Dumont (ed.): Samuel Thomas Sömmerring and the scholars of the time of Goethe. Sömmerring research; Stuttgart / New York 1985, pp. 263-278
  3. ↑ The effects of the corset on the female skeleton, engraving by Johann Daniel Berger after Christian Koeck from Samuel Thomas Soemmerring “About the effects of the laced breasts”, 1793
  4. ↑ Barbara Duden: History of the unborn: On the experience and history of science of pregnancy, 17.-20. Century In: Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, 2002, p. 217
  5. ^ Ullrich Hellmann: Art and science at the electoral university and at the Napoleonic école centrale zu Mainz, lecture as part of the "tour" at the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  6. ↑ Barbara Duden: The technique of producing the first female fetus (PDF; 489 kB) Selected writings and lectures 1991-1998, p. 40
  7. ↑ Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (PDF; 593 kB): Medicines - Naturalists - Inventors Rolf Siemon, Münster in: aerzteblatt-rheinlandpfalz.de
  8. ↑ Ulrike Enke: "Temples were erected for the first physicians ..." Soemmerring's register 1774-1804 Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, Jena, New York
personal data
SURNAME Koeck, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keck, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mainz draftsman, anatomy
DATE OF BIRTH 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 1818
Place of death Munich