Gottfried Christian Pingeling

Gottfried Christian Pingeling (born February 19, 1688 in Leipzig , † November 3, 1769 in Hamburg ) was a German engraver .

Life

Pingeling was the son of a tailor from Leipzig. He became a student of the engraver Martin Bernigeroth and followed the engraver Christian Fritzsch to Hamburg between 1719 and 1723. He married in Hamburg on January 25, 1724. From this marriage the son Thomas Albrecht Pingeling emerged in 1727 , who also became a copper engraver in Hamburg and from 1751 practiced the profession together with his father. The workshop of the two was classified by as the "most important" in the second half of the 18th century in Hamburg. They provided illustrations and title vignettes for books and occasional writings, maps, cityscapes and portraits. After Pingeling's death, his son continued the workshop with his student Johann Thomas Hagemann .

Works (selection)

Map of the island of Neuwerk

Portraits

• 1739: View of Hamburg with the Elbe
• 1739: Portrait of the Mennonite preacher Jacob Denner ( Jakob Denner , based on a model by Dominicus van der Smissen )
• 1740: Portrait of the mathematician Hinrich Meisner ( Heinrich Meißner )
• 1744, 1749, 1757: Views of the prison
• 1750: St. Michaeliskirche with the burning tower ( St. Michaeliskirche )

cards

• 1732: New map of the key areas of China and neighboring countries (published by Jonas Korte)
• 1747: New chart of the Tartarey: based on the most recent discoveries (Gebrüder Korte)

literature

• Pingeling, Gottfried Christian . In: Association for Hamburg History (Hrsg.): Hamburg Artist Lexicon . tape 1 : The visual artists . Pontt & von Döhren, Hamburg 1854, p. 189–190 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Ernst Rump: Pingeling, Gottfried Christian . In: Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . O. Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 103 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Pingeling, Gottfried Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 58 .

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Christian Pingeling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pingeling, Gottfried Christian uni-hamburg.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pingeling, Gottfried Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 58 .
2. ^ Victor Dirksen : Hagemann, Johann Thomas . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 458 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jakob Denner portraitindex.de.
4. ↑ Hinrich Meisner portraitindex.de.