Christian Meichelt

Christian Meichelt (* 1776 in Nuremberg ; † after 1840 (1830?), Exact dates unknown) was an engraver and miniature painter.

Life

Little is known about the life and work of Christian Meichelt. He was at Ambrosius Gabler made in Nuremberg (1762-1834) and then worked in the printing office of Christian von Mechel in Basel . From 1798 he worked as a drawing teacher in Lörrach at the local pedagogy (now Hebel-Gymnasium). The later history and battle painter Friedrich Kaiser was probably one of his students here . He later returned to Basel and Bern, where he worked for Johann Peter Lamy between 1820 and 1829 . In 1827 Meichelt was back in Lörrach. Georg Kaspar Nagler does not report a death date in his entry on Cristian Meichelt in 1840. The last known view by C. Meichelt, a motif from Heidelberg, was published in 1841. When he died is not mentioned in the sources.

family

Meichelt married Katharina Schöpflin. Two children are known:

• Heinrich Meichelt (1805–1880), landscape painter and art teacher
• Amalia Sophia Maria (* 1807)

Christian Meichelt was the godfather of the architect Friedrich Eisenlohr .

Works

• Several etched sheets for Shakespeare editions in (made in Mechel's workshop)
• Ten sheets of the Erdmannshöhle drawn and engraved in 1804
• Two sheets with views of Rötteln Castle and its surroundings
• Interior view of a Black Forest glassworks (aquatint)
• Coronation of Charlemagne (Rome, St. Peter, December 25, 800 by Leo III.) Aquatint etching after Johann Friedrich Dieterich (1787–1846)
• Several engravings after drawings by Johann Jacob Meyer zu Malerische Reise nach Heidelberg (1824) Digitized
• Landscape and architecture vedutas

Christian Meichelt mainly used motifs from Switzerland and southern Germany. The Rhine album VUES DU BORDS DU RHIN from around 1832 with old colored aquatints from the Koblenz publishers Franz Friedrich Röhling and Karl Baedeker , however, also contains four engravings from castles and palaces in the Middle Rhine .

Aquatint by Christian Meichelt based on a model by Johann Adolf Lasinsky

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  Heimburg ruins near Niederheimbach

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  Wellmich with Mouse Castle

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  Andernach Castle ruins

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  Ar (g) enfels Castle, Bad Hönningen

literature

• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Christian Meichelt, engraver and painter in Basel, teacher in Lörrach - also working for the Koblenz publishing house Karl Bädeker (Baedeker) , in: Badische Heimat, 4/2000, Freiburg i.Br. 2000, pp. 700–713, 7 illustrations, publisher: Landesverein Badische Heimat eV Freiburg, ISSN  0930-7001 .
• Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-11763-9 , p. 995.
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon , Volume 9, Munich 1840, p. 2 ( Google digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Christian Meichelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see the memoirs of his brother Eduard Kaiser: From old days. Memoirs of a Markgräfler (1815-1875) , Lörrach 1981, p. 49; he describes Meichelt as follows: "... a very dear, fat Bavarian named Meichelt, a good, wealthy house hammer, but who had the talent to inspire all his students for art ..."
2. ↑ Markus Lutz : Complete description of the Swiss country: Or geographic-statistical hand-lexicon of all cantons, districts, districts in the entire Confederation ..., H: R. Sauerländer, p. 310.
3. ^ Entry in the local family database Lörrach-Stetten; accessed on October 17, 2017
4. ^ Hans Joachim Clewing: Friedrich Eisenlohr, the draftsman and master builder. In: Badische Heimat, Volume 36 (1956) pp. 23–32 pdf ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.