Christoph Wilhelm Bock

Christoph Wilhelm Bock (born March 3, 1755 in Nuremberg ; † August 17, 1835 there ) was a German painter, draftsman and engraver .

Life

Bock's father was the master of ceremonies (chief of protocol ) of the Nuremberg city council . Bock received his training as a copperplate engraver from Georg Martin Preissler (1700–1754), the director of the Nuremberg Painting Academy and son of his predecessor Johann Daniel Preissler , and from the copperplate engraver Johann Nussbiegel (1750 to after 1829), then in Leipzig with Johann Friedrich Bause (1738 –1814), Adam Friedrich Oeser and Christian Gottlieb Geyser . There he made the acquaintance of Daniel Chodowiecki . After two years he returned to Nuremberg.

With his younger brother Johann Carl Bock (1757-1843) he was appointed to the Military Academy in Brussels , where he worked for two years on the map of the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium) under General Count Ferrari .

He then traveled to Vienna, where he was allowed to personally present his portrait of the Austrian Emperor Leopold II, engraved in 1779 . There he also trained with Jacob Matthias Schmutzer . From 1780 he worked again in Nuremberg.

Bock mainly produced portraits , but also history pictures and landscape views as etchings , using dotting and line techniques. The total number of his works is given as around 1300 pieces. With his brother Johann Christoph Bock (* 1752) he etched a series of 18 landscapes based on models by BA von Bemmel , a descendant of the Dutch painter Willem van Bemmel .

Bock was married twice, but survived all relatives.

Works (selection)

Collection of portraits of learned men and artists together with short biographies of the same. Nuremberg 1791 ff.

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Verlag EA Fleischmann, 1835, p. 549 ( books.google.de digitalisat).
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: Bock, Christoph Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 762 f.
Theodor Hampe : Bock, Christoph Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 157 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Christoph Wilhelm Bock - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Examples of works in the virtual copper engraving cabinet

Individual evidence

^ Theodor Hampe : Bock, Christoph Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 157 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). ; Older sources give the years 1754-1830 as dates of life.
^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Verlag EA Fleischmann, 1845, p. 379 ( books.google.de digitalisat).

personal data
SURNAME	Bock, Christoph Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	17th August 1835
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Theodor Hampe : Bock, Christoph Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 157 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). ; Older sources give the years 1754-1830 as dates of life.

[2] Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Verlag EA Fleischmann, 1845, p. 379 ( books.google.de digitalisat).