Franz Burchard Dörbeck
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
- Literature by and about Franz Burchard Dörbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Franz Burchard Dörbeck. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Viljandlased leidsid Franz Dörbecki haua (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dörbeckweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
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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 |