Georg Koch (painter, 1819)

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Georg Koch (born December 19, 1819 in Kassel ; † January 10, 1899 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and lithographer . He was a professor at the Kassel Academy .

Life

Georg Koch began his artistic career in Kassel in the 1840s. He first learned the profession of handwriting lithographer and then attended the art academy in Kassel. His first independent work was portrait drawings of Hessian personalities. He mainly devoted himself to lithography and the reproduction of well-known paintings. He became known for his chalk and stone drawings based on masterpieces (especially Raphael's Madonna) in the Italian galleries of 1861, 1867 and 1869 as well as the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Kassel. In 1853 he became a teacher at the Academy in Kassel. Following several trips to Italy in 1861 and 1867–1869 as well as to Paris in 1865, Koch devoted himself to drawing the main works of Raffael , Titian and other masters for photographic reproduction. In 1880 he was appointed professor at the Kassel Academy. In 1893 he retired.

He left two sons Ernst and Fritz Koch

plant

Georg Koch was a reproduction lithographer. The following works appeared from his hand: An der Schwalm , pictures from the Hessian folk life by Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern , Kassel 1855; Drawing school for head and figure draftsmen , ibid 1858; From the life of a libertine drawn by Bonaventura Genelli , lithographed by Georg Koch, Leipzig 1866; Rafael Santi , a chronological selection of his most important works, based on the originals drawn by Georg Koch, Kassel 1867.

Known students

literature

  • Ingrid Koszinowski, Vera Leuschner: Ludwig Emil Grimm, 1790–1863: painter, draftsman, etcher. 200 Years Brothers Grimm, Volume 2. Exhibition catalog. Weber & Weidemeyer 1985, p. 331.
  • Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Kassel: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies: ZHG, Volume 104. Verlag Verein für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde 1999, p. 183.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Odysseus and Penelope 1860 Georg Koch: Lithography distributed by the Saxon Art Association Dresden in 1861 as an annual gift. (Exhibition cat. Dresden 1928, pp. 86, 175).
  2. ↑ Louis Katzenstein: Koch, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 51 (1906), p. 294.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and lithographer; professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1899
Place of death kassel