Friedrich Jentzen (lithographer)

Friedrich Jentzen (born May 24, 1804 in Berlin , † August 25, 1875 in Weimar ) was a German portrait painter and lithographer .

Life

Friedrich Jentzen received his artistic training from 1819 as a student at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Heinrich Anton Dähling and Johann Gottfried Niedlich . From 1822 he regularly took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions. In 1824 he became acquainted with the animal painter and lithographer Franz Krüger and turned - probably for financial reasons - to professional work as a lithographer.

Jentzen used the savings from his lithographic work, combined with a travel grant from the Akademie der Künste, in 1829 for a study trip through Germany and Switzerland to France, which he concluded with a one-year stay in Paris from 1830. Here he was able to train himself artistically in the highly developed lithography workshops. After his return he was based in Berlin.

Franz Krüger left the transfer of his drawings to stone to well-known lithographers, who in addition to Jentzen also included Friedrich Oldermann (1802–1874) and Gustav Feckert (1820–1899). The sheets were published by the publisher and art dealer Louis Friedrich Sachse . He described the "experienced technician" Jentzen as the "most capable of professional lithographers". Jentzen also worked for the Royal Lithographic Institute at the same time. From 1843 he was (initially an extraordinary) member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

The Berlin Kupferstichkabinett keeps a number of Jentzen's large-format lithographs, a significant part of which were printed and published by Sachse. These are almost exclusively sheets based on Krüger templates.

literature

Jentzen, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 522 .
Sylva van der Heyden: Jentzen, Friedrich . In: Bénédicte Savoy and France Nerlich (eds.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . tape 1 (1793-1843) . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 134-135 .
Anna Ahrens: The Pioneer - How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3 , p. 152 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Catalog: XLI. Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. 1858. p. 34 and p. 114 (digitized art library Berlin)
↑ Jentzen, F. In: General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and Surroundings , 1850, Part 1, p. 206. “Lithograph, Oranienstr. 102-103 ".
↑ ^a ^b Anna Ahrens: The pioneer. - How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3 , p. 152.
^ AdBK Berlin, visual arts - members

personal data
SURNAME	Jentzen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 25, 1875
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Catalog: XLI. Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. 1858. p. 34 and p. 114 (digitized art library Berlin)

[2] Jentzen, F. In: General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and Surroundings , 1850, Part 1, p. 206. “Lithograph, Oranienstr. 102-103 ".

[Ahrens-3] Anna Ahrens: The pioneer. - How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3 , p. 152.

[4] AdBK Berlin, visual arts - members