Conrad Caspar Rordorf

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Conrad Caspar Rordorf even Rohrdorf (* 26. November 1800 in Zurich ; † 29. October 1847 at Round Top , Fayette County , Texas ) was a Swiss aquatint - etcher and landscape painter .

Life

Unspunnen with Virgin , colored aquatint from Rordorf to Wetzel

Rordorf, the son of a tailor and liqueur manufacturer, was a student of the Zurich landscape painter Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781–1834), whose landscape paintings he printed as an engraver in the work Voyages pittoresques aux lacs de la Suisse . He particularly knew how to make panoramas . From 1826 he lived in Dresden , from 1828 to 1834 in Heidelberg , where he married Anna Elisabetha Steitz on April 9, 1829. In 1840 he stayed in Düsseldorf . In 1846 he was one of the five founding members of the natural research association founded in Bonn in Texas , which had the task of traveling to Texas, collecting natural objects there and sending them to Germany to set up a museum. In January 1847, the tour group arrived by ship from Antwerp in Galveston, Texas . Together with Alwin Sörgel (1815-1875) he separated from her. He came to New Braunfels , where he drew landscapes on behalf of the Association for the Protection of German Immigrants , including the panorama of the city of Neu-Braunfels in Texas . At the end of October 1847, Rordorf accompanied Hermann Spieß , the general commissioner of the association, when he forcibly wanted to take possession of the Nassau plantation owned by the association and leased to Fredéric Armand Strubberg . At this event there was a shootout that cost both a person on the side of Strubberg and Rordorf's life. Rordorf's portfolio of more than forty drawings fell into Strubberg's hands.

Works (selection)

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Panorama of the city of Neu-Braunfels in Texas, taken from the southwest side in the summer of 1847 , Julius Tempeltey after Conrad Caspar Rordorf, 1851
  • Illustrations for the panorama of Heidelberg, its castle and its surroundings. Panorama de la Ville de Heidelberg, de son Chateau et de ses Environs , Engelmann, Heidelberg 1828
  • Illustrations for the panorama of the Niederwald near Rüdesheim , Engelmann, Heidelberg 1828 ( online )
  • Illustrations for Johann Metzger : Description of the Heidelberg Castle and Gardens , Heidelberg 1829 ( Google Books )
  • Illustrations for signposts through the Schwetzinger Garten , Engelmann, Heidelberg 1830 ( digitized version )
  • Panorama of the city of Neu-Braunfels in Texas, taken from the southwest side in the summer of 1847 , colored lithograph by Julius Tempeltey after a drawing by Rordorf in: Special maps of the possessions of the Texas Association together with a general map of the state of Texas according to the congress resolution of Sept. Newly established borders in Washington in 1850 and an instruction for German emigrants , Gebrüder Delius, Berlin 1851 ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Commons : Conrad Caspar Rordorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conrad Caspar Rordorf , data sheet in the familysearch.org portal , accessed on February 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Swiss Monthly Chronicle , supplement March 1829, JJ Ulrich, Zurich 1829, p. XI ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 438
  4. ^ Statutes of the natural research association in Texas , Bonn 1846 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Myra Lee Adams Goff: First known view of early New Braunfels - 1847 , article from July 28, 2009 in the portal sophienburg.com , accessed on February 23, 2017
  6. ↑ Myra Lee Adams Goff: Hermann Spiess follows Meusebach as commissioner general , article from April 20, 2014 in the portal sophienburg.com , accessed on February 23, 2017
  7. ↑ Kenn Knopp: The Ovals of History, "Happy History" or real history , article in the portal texas-hill-county.com , accessed on February 23, 2017
  8. ↑ James C. Kearney: Nassau Plantation. The Evolution of a Texas-German Slave Plantation . University of North Texas Press, Denton / Texas 2010, ISBN 978-1-57441-286-4 , pp. 7, 124, 138 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Rordorf, Conrad Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohrdorf, Conrad Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss aquatint etcher and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1847
Place of death at Round Top , Fayette County , Texas