Adolf Neumann (copper engraver)
Friedrich Gustav Adolf Neumann (born June 5, 1825 in Leipzig ; † November 20, 1884 ibid) was a German painter , draftsman and copyist , graphic artist and marine painter , as well as copper and steel engraver .
Life
Adolf Neumann was the brother of the wood engraver August Neumann , who ran a xylographic studio in Leipzig. He studied under Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld at the Leipzig Art Academy and in the Leipzig studio of the copper engraver Henry Winkles , and later with Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling and Carl Werner .
Works
Adolf Neumann often signed with the letters “AN”. Since the 1850s, many of his drawings, especially portraits of people, have appeared in the Illustrirten Zeitung and the family paper Die Gartenlaube .
- The Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ( Manskopf portrait collection ) owns the following works by Neumann:
- a half-length portrait of the writer August Wilhelm Ambros
- a half-length portrait of the composer Robert Franz
- a half-length portrait of the actress Adolfine Neumann
- a half-length portrait of the composer Franz Schubert
- a group picture with the composers Christoph Willibald Gluck , Joseph Haydn , Georg Friedrich Händel , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johann Sebastian Bach
- Neumann stood out based on
templates from Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg
- for the Schiller Gallery published in 1859 , as well as
- for the Goethe Gallery , published in 1864 .
literature
- Older literature:
- A. Appel: Handbook for engravers , 1880
- F. von Bötticher: Painters' Works of the 19th Century , II / 1 (1898)
- Singer: Artist Lexicon , III
- JF Hoff, AL Richter, 1922
- F. Schulze: The City History Museum (Leipzig Museum Guide), 1922
- Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , 9 (1874), plate after p. 32
- Zeitschrift für bildenden Kunst , 10 (1875), plate in front of p. 31
- Art Chronicle , 20 (1885), 189
- Univ. Cat. of Books on Art , South Kensington Museum , London 1870, II
- Catalog exhibition of German art of the 19th century , Leipzig, November / December 1915, p. 53
- Neumann, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 410 .
- Neumann, Friedrich Gustav Adolph . In: Singer: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 3 (1898), page 299 ( full text in Google Book Search - USA )
- Friedrich Pecht: List of illustrations . In: Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg, fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1859; Pages (without number) directly after the foreword, Text Archive - Internet Archive
- Friedrich Pecht: Goethe Gallery. Characters from Goethe's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg . Fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1864.
Web links
Commons : Adolf Neumann - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ ad: Adolf Neumann . Photo archive Marburg , edit. v. German Historical Museum Berlin
- ^ Friedrich Pecht: List of Figures . In: Schiller Gallery… , as well as in: Goethe Gallery
- ↑ Compare the information DNB 135558247 of the German National Library
- ^ Adolf Neumann . In: The Gazebo . Issue 20, 1876, pp. 331, 342 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ↑ a b Neumann, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 410 .
- ↑ German poets . In: The Gazebo . 1859, p. 269 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ↑ August Wilhelm Ambros, half-length portrait
- ↑ Robert Franz, half-length portrait
- ^ Adolfine Neumann, half-length portrait
- ↑ Franz Schubert, half-length portrait
- ↑ Half-length portrait, group portrait
- ^ Friedrich Pecht: Directory of the illustrations , in: Schiller-Galerie
- ^ Friedrich Pecht: Directory of the illustrations , in: Goethe Gallery
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Neumann, Adolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neumann, Friedrich Gustav Adolf (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and engraver |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1825 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1884 |
Place of death | Leipzig |