Heinrich August Grosch

Heinrich August Grosch (born February 26, 1763 in Lübeck , † July 6, 1843 in Oslo ) was a copperplate engraver , painter and drawing teacher of German origin who lived and worked in Denmark and Norway . The focus of his works was on romantic landscape depictions in copperplate and aquatint techniques.

education

Grosch was the son of Friedrich Heinrich Grosch, a watchmaker and candidate of theology, and Catharina Tiedemann. Before 1790 he was apparently a student of Johann Jochen Ludwig in Lübeck. From 1790 to 1794 he studied with Ernst Heinrich Löffler at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. He completed his training with distinction (small silver medal).

Act

Grosch: Frederikshald

From 1790 to 1811 Grosch lived in Copenhagen and in 1799 married Johanne Margrethe Gerhardine Clar (1775–1849), daughter of a pharmacist and ceramist from Rendsburg . In 1810 Grosch made his first trip to Norway. He founded a private drawing school and his own painter's studio in Frederikshald (now Halden ) in 1811. In 1817 he moved to Christiania (now Oslo), where he was involved in the founding of what would later become the royal art school, where he worked as a teacher until 1840.

He was the father of the future architect Christian Heinrich Grosch (1801-1865).

Works (selection)

• Holstein's beautiful areas, faithfully reproduced from nature, series of etchings (1790)
• Norwegian landscape views, based on motifs by Erik Pauelsen , Christian August Lorentzen and own drawings, aquatint, 15 sheets (1797–1807)
• Portrait Franz Josef Gall , copper engraving (1805)
• Wall painting with Norwegian landscapes , gouaches , Christiansborg Castle (1810; not preserved)
• Malerisk Rejse gennem Norge , aquatint, 2 booklets with 10 and 1 sheets (1821)
• "Kosmorama" with Norwegian fantasy landscapes , Bygdø Kungsgård (1835)

Grosch also published instruction books for drawing lessons, such as the Theoretisk Tegnebog for Fruentimmer (“Theoretical drawing book for women”, 2 booklets, 1794 and 1799).

literature

• Carl Wille Schnitler : Grosch, Heinrich August . 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. 93-94 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Henrik Grevenor: Grosch, Heinrich August . In: Edvard Bull Einar Jansen (ed.): Norsk biografisk leksikon . tape 5 : Grosch – Helkand . Aschehoug, Oslo 1931, p. 6-7 (Norwegian).
• Werner Stockfisch: Grosch, Heinrich August . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , p. 82.
• Astrid Bugge: Heinrich August Grosch . In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon . tape 1 : AG . Univ.-Forlaget, Oslo 1982, ISBN 82-00-05689-9 (Norwegian, snl.no - as of July 3, 2013).
• Ingeborg Vibe: Heinrich August Grosch . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon Online . 2014 (Norwegian, snl.no - as of February 13, 2009).

Web links

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