Friedrich Fleischmann (copperplate engraver)

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Self-portrait with poem

Friedrich Fleischmann (born March 23, 1791 in Nuremberg , † November 9, 1834 in Munich ) was a German painter, graphic artist and engraver . He is also considered to be an important steel engraver who was the first to introduce this reproduction technique at the Nuremberg School of Engraving.

Life

Katharina Pawlowna , Grand Duchess of Russia from the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp , from 1816 Queen of Württemberg ;
Painting by Fleischmann, between 1816 and 1819

Friedrich Fleischmann was a student of the Preißler drawing school operated in Nuremberg as well as Ambrosius Gabler who worked there .

From 1808 he worked for the Campe'sche book, art, music and map dealer founded a few years earlier , with whose founder Friedrich Campe he undertook a trip to the Rhine , the Netherlands and England in 1814 , similar to Carl Ludwig Frommel later , who brought the technique of steel engraving to Karlsruhe from London in 1824 .

The painter Friedrich Fleischmann with his Munich artist colleagues in the Hofbräukeller , watercolor , 1834

At the beginning of the 1830s, Fleischmann published a political, a funny cartoon of a journalist who thereupon incited "[...] the mob against him" to a riot that demolished his house. As a result, Fleischmann moved to Munich in 1831, where he died a few years later.

One of Fleischmann's students was Friedrich Geissler , who was instructed by Fleischmann in the art of engraving from 1832 and then formed the core of the “New Nuremberg School of Copper Engravers” with Heinrich Guttenberg and Albert Reindel .

Friedrich Fleischmann created almost 2000 engravings, mostly directly "[...] after nature", which "[...] are of value due to their striking conception", especially numerous portraits of his contemporaries, including von Blücher and Gneisenau, and King Ludwig the Queen Therese or Madame Catalani. He sometimes shortened his artist's signature to F. Fl. from.

Illustrations

  • Historical conversations for the youth. With copper / by C [hristian] J [akob] Wagenseil , 6 volumes, several editions, with illustrations by Christian Jakob Wagenseil, Johann Michael Voltz and Friedrich Fleischmann, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, 1817–1819
  • [Johann Konrad] All of Grübel's works , with a portrait of Konrad Grübel, painted and engraved by Fleischmann, Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, 1835

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f ch: Friedrich Fleischmann on the page hdbg.eu from the House of Bavarian History [ undated , 2006?], Last accessed on May 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Pecht: Fleischmann, Friedrich ; in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 7 (1878), p. 114; Transcription into the German biography
  3. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. , Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835-1852, Vol. 4, pp. 509ff.
  4. ^ Sylva van der Heyden: Geissler, (Johann Martin) Friedrich , in France Nerlich , Bénédict Savoy (ed.), Paris apprenticeship. A lexicon for the training of German painters in the French capital , Berlin; Boston, Massachusetts: De Gruyter, pp. 90f. u.ö .; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, engraver, and steel engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1834
Place of death Munich