Franz Burchard Dörbeck

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Berlin caricature by Dörbeck. Original caption: Conversation in front of the pub. I want to tell you, dear brother, I don't actually drink, and that's my first reason, second I don't drink today, because my mother died, and thirdly, I just drank in the golden ball .

Franz Burchard Dörbeck (born February 10 . Jul / 21st February  1799 greg. In Fellin , † September 20 jul. / 2. October  1835 greg. ) Was a Baltic German cartoonist and painter .

Life

Franz Burchard Dörbeck's parents were Friedrich Burchard Dörbeck and Helena Dorothea Rakosnick . In 1816 Dörbeck completed an apprenticeship as an engraver with the engraver Fritz Neyer in Saint Petersburg and then entered the Russian civil service. After the early death of his first wife, he moved to Riga , where he worked as a portrait artist from 1820 and remarried.

In 1823 Dörbeck settled in Berlin . With the support of Georg Christian Gropius , he worked as a portrait engraver and book illustrator. He gained fame through his series of lithographs , in which he presented Berlin scenarios in a humorous way. These series included, among other things, Berlin idioms, Berlin jokes and anecdotes as well as Nante .

Dörbeck spent his old age in his hometown Fellin.

In 1960 the Dörbeckweg in Berlin-Spandau was named after him.

literature

  • Hans Ludwig: Old Berlin types from Dörbeck . Staneck Verlag, Berlin 1966

Web links

Commons : Franz Burchard Dörbeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dörbeckweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Dörbeck, Franz Burchard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Fellin , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1835
Place of death Fellin , Russian Empire