Friedrich August Fricke

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Friedrich August Fricke (* 1784 in Leipzig ; † 1858 ibid) was a German painter, draftsman and lithographer .

Life

Gebhard's bath house in Reichenbachschen Garten in Leipzig

Friedrich August Fricke has been an artist in Leipzig since 1819 , where he worked until the end of his life. In addition to portraits and landscapes, he also drew architecture, including the Biedermeier Reichenbachschen or Gerhardschen Garten in Leipzig in seven sheets. Fricke is one of the early lithographers in Leipzig. He published various drawing templates.

The Protestant theologian Gustav Adolf Fricke was his son. The son-in-law of his son, Superintendent Georg Buchwald , took the artistic estate of Friedrich August into safekeeping in Rochlitz . His estate is in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin .

Drawing templates

  • The perfect flower draftsman , 1820 and 1824
  • The landscape draftsman , four volumes, 1820
  • Studbook drawings , 1823
  • Ornaments in Ancient Taste , 1831 and 1851
  • Studies for the higher art of drawing according to antiquity , two volumes, 1831

Books

  • The Roman Emperors of the Western Empire: In chronological order from Julius Caesar to Romulus Augustulus: 82 heads according to antiquity. two volumes, Koehler, 1828.

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich August Fricke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Kurzwelly : Fricke, Friedrich August . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 452 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Entry in the central database of bequests
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1858
Place of death Leipzig