Friedrich Bretschneider (copperplate engraver)
Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Bretschneider (born October 31, 1821 in Blankenburg (Harz) , † October 19, 1878 in Holzminden ) was a German engraver , etcher and drawing teacher.
Life
Friedrich Bretschneider was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in the Duchy of Braunschweig in 1821 . He was the son of the jeweler and goldworker Friedrich Wilhelm Andreas Bretschneider and his wife Karoline Luise Christiane, nee. Time fox. He attended the Blankenburg high school and went to Braunschweig in 1838. There he was a guest student at the Collegium Carolinum and was trained by the painter Heinrich Brandes . From 1840 he was taught copperplate engraving by Friedrich Knolle . From 1847 to 1850 Bretschneider continued his artistic training in Paris. He lived in Braunschweig from 1850 to 1857 before he went to the building trade school in Holzminden as a drawing teacher . There he worked as a drawing teacher at the grammar school from 1860 until his death in 1878 . He was married to Karoline, born in 1868. Georg, who had a daughter.
Bretschneider's work, most of which was written before 1860, comprises around 75 sheets. These include numerous depictions of landscapes, mainly views of the Harz Mountains . For the zoologist Johann Heinrich Blasius , who teaches at the Collegium Carolinum , he created 24 views that appeared in his novel Reise im Europäische Russland , published in 1844, in 1840 and 1841 . Other works are the monkey barber shop based on a picture by David Teniers, the fishing family based on the picture by Niels Simonsen , the Lessing statue in Braunschweig, the vignette on invoice sheets for the mechanical engineering institute by Friedrich Seele and a form based on a drawing by Constantin Uhde for the Shares in the Braunschweig sugar refinery .
literature
- Angela Klein: Bretschneider, Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 98 .
- Paul Zimmermann : Bretschneider, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 228 f.
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| SURNAME | Bretschneider, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bretschneider, Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver, eraser and drawing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blankenburg (Harz) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1878 |
| Place of death | Holzminden |