Daniel Caffé

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Daniel Caffé (also Caffe or Caffee ; * July 21, 1750 in Küstrin ; † January 16, 1815 in Leipzig ) was a German painter who mainly worked as a portraitist .

Life

Daniel Caffé first learned the profession of carpenter. Then he worked as a valet and scribe. Autodidactically he acquired artistic painting and drawing, especially portrait painting. In 1782, at the age of thirty-two, he became a pupil of the court painter Johann Heinrich Schmidt (1749–1829) and the Italian painter Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730–1795) at the Dresden Art Academy . As models he emulated the Dresden court painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) and the portrait painter Anton Graff (1736–1818). Around 1792 he went to Leipzig, where he lived and worked until his death.

His main field of activity was portrait painting, where he mostly executed his works as pastels . He had numerous commissions from the civil and aristocratic society of Saxony. But he also created mythological representations and genre scenes .

Caffé was married to Dorothea Sophie Schafberg (1768–1823). Their two son Daniel Ferdinand Caffé (* 1793, verifiably until 1837) also worked as a portraitist in Leipzig.

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  1. ↑ There is also information with 1756 as the year of birth.
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SURNAME Caffé, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caffee, Daniel; Caffe, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1815
Place of death Leipzig