Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger

Engraving by Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger, Maria with the child and little Johannes after Lorenzo Lotto's painting from 1518

Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger (born July 20, 1756 in Dresden ; died January 9, 1834 in Dresden) was a Saxon engraver and professor at the Dresden Art Academy .

Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger was the offspring of a family of artists that had been active in Dresden since the early 18th century. At the age of eleven he began his training at the Dresden Art Academy , which had been founded a few years earlier . The first director of the academy, Charles Hutin , instructed him in drawing, as did the Italian painter and draftsman Giovanni Battista Casanova , co-founder and director of the academy from 1776. Also counted Johann Eleazar Zeissig called Schenau to his art teachers. The art of piercing he learned at the Italian Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803), miniaturist and engraver for the Saxon court, then a professor at the academy.

Because of his talent and skill, Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger received an academic pension in 1789. In 1803 he became a member of the Dresden Academy, and in 1815 it was appointed associate professor. He was a member of the Dresden Freemason Lodge Zum Golden Apfel .

Following the development of the engraver art at the turn of the 19th century, combined Krüger in its stitches the technique of erasing and etching of larger surfaces with the post by means of the burin . The result of his work was popular and he contributed to the illustration of numerous books of his time. His engravings can be found in August Gottlieb Meißner's sketches , a collection of 50 crime stories, and in his historical novel Alcibiades , for which he made the initial engraving based on a drawing by his teacher Schenau. He provided the illustrations for Friedrich Christian Schlenkert's novels as well as for the Moral Picture Bible by Kaspar Friedrich Lossius or his historical picture room. His engravings were also included in the letters about art to a friend of Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz and in Göschen's magnificent edition of the works of Christoph Martin Wieland from the years 1794–1802. Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker's Augusteum on the ancient monuments of Dresden contains 28 sheets by Krüger based on items from Mengs's collection of casts, which Anton Raphael Mengs had put together for study purposes and which Elector Friedrich August I acquired from his estate in 1782.

His engravings were also valued abroad and he received commissions from the editors Louis Robillard-Péronville and Pierre Laurent for the large-scale table work for the Louvre , then the Musée Napoléon .

literature

• Carl Clauss:  Kruger . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 223 f.
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 7. Fleischmann, Munich 1839, p. 179 f . ( Digitized version )
• Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Volume 12, part 1. Voigt, Weimar 1836, pp. 19-21 ( Google Books ).

Web links

• Works by and about Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger in the Dresden State Art Collections
• Works by Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger in the digital portrait index
• Works by Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger in the Deutsche Fotothek
• Works by Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger in the Virtual Kupferstichkabinett of the Herzog August Library and the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

Remarks

1. ↑ Lorenzo Lotto, Maria with the child and little Johannes ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2015 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. in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . 
2. ↑ For example: Kaspar Friedrich Lossius : Moralische Bilderbibel Volume 5. Perthes, Gotha 1812, copper engraving 63 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz : Letters about art to a friend. Göschen, Leipzig 1795, plate 3 and others ( digitized ).
4. ^ Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker : Augusteum, Dresden's ancient monuments containing. Two volumes. Dresden 1805–1809, here Volume 2, Plate 50 and others ( digitized ).
5. ^ Louis Robillard-Péronville, Pierre Laurent: Le musée Français, recueil complet des tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs, qui composent la collection nationale. Avec l'explication des Sujets, et des Discours historiques sur la Peinture, la Sculpture et la Gravuere, ... Four volumes. Herhan, Paris 1803-1809.