Friedrich Rossmaessler

Friedrich Roßäßler (* around 1775 in Leipzig ; † 1858 there ) was a German engraver and draftsman.

Johann Friedrich Roßmaessler stayed for a long time in Munich , Berlin and Dresden and devoted himself to the art of steel engraving . The engravers August (1752–1783) and Adolf Roßmaessler (1770–1821) were his brothers.

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  Lorenz Oken, steel engraving by Friedrich Rosmäsler after Franz Krüger

Works

• Gallery of the most excellent doctors and naturalists in Germany . Gotha 1831 and 1833
• FHW Rossmaesler: Prussia, in landscape representations, engraved in steel according to own drawings . 1st volume: Rügen, Pomerania and Silesia (no longer published), Berlin from 1834, 2nd verb. Ed. 1841

literature

• Rossmaesler, Johann Friedrich , in: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . Volume 13, pp. 444 f., Munich 1843 ( digitized version )
• Rossmaessler, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 267 f.
• Rosmaesler, FHW junior , in association f. Hamburg history: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg, 1854, p. 208 [215]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Because of the different initials, this is an attribution; see the article in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)