Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen

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Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen , also Nicolaus , Nicholas , Rolfsen (* around 1719, probably in Hamburg ; † February 6, 1802 in Hamburg) was a German draftsman and engraver .

Life

1748 Rolffsen received as citizens Son himself the Hamburg citizenship . From 1747 to around 1800 he created an extensive work of illustrations, portraits, views, plans, vignettes, memorial sheets and bookplates. He was, according to the assessment of the Hamburg Künstlerlexicons of 1854, as "a diligent and not clumsy engraver." Works by him can be found among others in the Hamburgensien collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the broadsheet -Sammlung the Museum of Hamburg History . Since his participation in card printing is often referred to as "FN Rolffsen et filii sculps", he is indicated as a participant in the printing of the work of the City of Hamburg statutes and court order .

Works

Lightning strike in the Great Michaelis Church (1750)
  • 1747–1752: most of the plates for Langermann's coin and medal amusement
  • 1748: bookplate for the Commerzbibliothek
  • 1750: View ( prospect ) of the old little St. Michaelis church
  • 1750: View ( prospect ) of the large St. Michaelis Church , how lightning strikes it; the tower of St. Michaelis Church falling in full fire; a sheet in four sections, representing the same brand
  • 1751: the burning graves in St. Michaeliskirche
  • 1757: the cracks and views of the newly built little St. Michaelis Church, seven sheet folio
  • 1757: the siege of Harburg Castle
  • 1760: a Quaker society of 17 people seated at the table
  • 1760: 8 copper engravings for the collection of the Hamburg fire insurance institutions and regulations
  • 1761: Portrait of Georg Friedrich Handel , frontispiece for Johann Mattheson : Georg Friderich Handel's biography, together with a list of his works and their assessment; Translated [from the English by J. Mainwaring], also with some comments, peculiar to the Hamburg article . Hamburg, at the translator's expense, 1761. With d. Portrait of Handel by FN Rolffsen [after T. Chambars].
  • 1763: the altar sheet in the large St. Michaeliskirche, after JH Tischbein
  • 1779: Presentation of the Hamburg ships in the Greenland Ice
  • 1771: Prospect of the great flood of the Hammerbrook in 1771
  • 1772: Memorial for the descendants, in an accurate outline of those areas of Hamburg that were broken through the Elbe dike, which was 600 feet wide, on July 8, 1771, from the Ober-Wasser in the Neuen-Gamme Deich-Thor of Hamburg, have been flooded.
  • 1774: Map of the Elbe river according to Capitain Cornelius Martin Wohlers , in four sheets
  • 1775: accurate Passkaart van't Helgoland after Christian Peter Wohlers, 2 sheets
  • 1775: Zeekaart van het Eyland Helgeland
  • 1775–1776: the copper engravings and vignettes for Gottfried Schütze : History of Hamburg
  • 1786: Prospect of Blanchard's Twentieth Aviation
  • 1786: Prospect of the new Pesthof Church
  • 1787 Johann Gottlieb Möhring's layout of Lübeck

Rolffsen is also said to have provided the copperplate engravings for William Hogarth : Works and copperplate engravings morally and satyrically explained, the first section, the incident of a lover sister , Hamburg 1769;

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Rolffsen, Franz Nicolaus. In: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexicon. Volume 1. Hamburg 1854, p. 203 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg: Supplement I: Maps over the Nieder-Elbe . In: Melchior Lorich's Elbe map from 1568 . Meissner, Hamburg 1847, p. 133 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ The city of Hamburg statutes and court order . Conrad King heirs, Hamburg 1771, OCLC 935814655 ( digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  4. ^ Johann Paul Langermann, Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen: Hamburg Coin and Medal Pleasure or illustration and description of Hamburg coins and medals; to which a list of printed Hamburg documents, documents and other letters and necessary registers were attached . Johan Georg Piscator, Hamburg 1753 ( digital.slub-dresden.de ).
  5. ↑ Paintings by old masters, copper engravings, woodcuts ... Max Perl, Berlin 1916 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ): "Illustration of the twentieth flight of Mr. Blanchard on August 23, 1786, in the afternoon at 4½ o'clock, from the Sternschanze near Hamburg"
  6. ↑ The works of William Hogarth explained morally and satyrically in copper engravings. Hamburg and Leipzig 1769 ( digitized in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Rolffsen, Franz Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rolffsen, Franz Nicolaus; Rolffsen, Franz Nicholas; Rolfsen, Franz Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1802
Place of death Hamburg