Christoph Preisel

Lotte, from the suffering of young Werther - Werther picks up Lotte for the ball. Copper engraving around 1860, Christoph Preisel after Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Christoph Preisel (born February 14, 1818 in Nuremberg ; last mentioned in 1877) was a German engraver , printer , and draftsman .

Life

Christoph Preisel first attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under K. Mayer and Albert Christoph Reindel and then continued his education in Vienna and Munich . As a “black art worker” he had also learned the art of printing. From 1849 to 1851 he stayed in Paris . But he did not make his first known engraving until 1866, “a Pietà after Albert Sutermans in the Neue Pinakothek, which was received with approval ”.

Priceel visited Italy in 1876 ​​and 1877 .

Famous works

• Pietà after Albert Sutermans in the Neue Pinakothek, 1866
• Sta. Paula to Dubufe
• Dora , Friederike and Lotte to Kaulbach (from Goethe's female figures )
• The death of Leonardo da Vinci after Schrader
• The interrupted card game and the missed meal time after Enhuber
• Two sheets in the King Ludwigs album
• The ball on the Alm after Defregger
• Elisabeth I after Arthur von Ramberg in Friedrich Pecht's Schiller Gallery , published in 1859

literature

• Preisel, Christoph , in: Alexander Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 425
• Thieme-Becker

Web links

• Prices on Europeana .eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Alexander Müller: Preisel, Christoph , in: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , p. 425
2. ↑ ^{a b authority} data entry (GND 116281847 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 12, 2016.
3. ↑ Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg , fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht F. A. Brockhaus , Leipzig 1859; online through google books