Friedrich Knolle (copperplate engraver)
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Knolle (born May 4, 1807 in Braunschweig ; † July 6, 1877 on the Asse near Wolfenbüttel ) was a German engraver.
life and work
Knolle was the son of a ministerial official. He first attended the Martino-Gymnasium in Braunschweig, before completing an apprenticeship as an engraver and draftsman with the painter, copper and steel engraver Friedrich Barthel and with Carl W. Schenk. From 1831 to 1838 he studied with Pietro Anderloni in Milan, then visited Dresden, London and Paris and first appeared with an engraving after Theodor Hildebrandt's painting Death of the Sons of Edward IV, King of England , which made him well known. After he returned to Braunschweig, he was awarded the title of professor there in 1845. Since 1868, as inspector of the Ducal Museum in Braunschweig, today's Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , he was responsible for the Kupferstichkabinett , whose reorganization he devoted himself to.
Its other main leaves in line style include:
- Magdalena to Correggio ,
- Assumption of Mary to Murillo ,
- The interest penny (1843) after Titian ,
- The heal. Cecilia and Christ, breaking bread , after Carlo Dolci ,
- The birth of Christ according to Carlo Maratti (all in Dresden),
- Spring according to Bernhard Plockhorst .
More sheets were
- Death of the sons of Edward IV (1840) after Theodor Hildebrandt's murder of the sons of Edward IV ,
- Portrait of Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig (1856) after Gustav Adolf Barthel
He died on July 6, 1877.
literature
- Thomas Döring: Knolle, Johann Heinrich Friedrich, Prof. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 328-329 .
- Friedrich Knolle . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 24 .
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Knolle, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 320 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Döring: Knolle, Johann Heinrich Friedrich, Prof. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 328 .
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SURNAME | Knolle, Friedrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knolle, Johann Heinrich Friedrich (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1807 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1877 |
Place of death | Aces at Wolfenbüttel |