Johann Baptist Hoessel

View of the princely Russian residence city of Schleitz, 1810

Johann Baptist Hoessel († after 1824 ) was a German etcher and engraver who worked with the aquatint technique, which was still new at the time .

Life

From 1799 Hoessel worked in the new Chalkographische Gesellschaft in Dessau , which went bankrupt in 1806 . Then he probably went to Russia or England .

Around 1810 he was based in Altenburg . He is said to have also worked in Weimar . It is certain that he settled in Berlin around 1814 , where he also exhibited in the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in 1816 and 1822 . In Berlin in 1817 he taught the young painter Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp in copperplate engraving. He also published exercise sheets for his students. For the atlas for the physical description of the Canary Islands by Leopold Freiherr von Buch, he created a map that showed the view of the mountains of Tenerife. He also engraved building views for the plan of Potsdam and the surrounding area, using the Königl's garden plans. Garten-Directeurs Lenne (approx. 1830) or, together with J. Christian Haldenwang and Ebner, the Silesian Views from the Giant Mountains in XIV. Aquatint sheets (1806) based on drawings by Christoph Nathe .

Works (selection)

New landscape school or sheets in aqua-tinta or ink manner on steel for practicing the brush presentation in the landscape through self-teaching . First section: Nordic landscape-nature. , First and Second Issue. Glaser, Schleusingen 1835, OCLC 834157184 (8 pages, 4 illustrations).

literature

Hoessel, Johann Baptist . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 223 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Hoessel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ General directory of those books which were either completely reprinted or otherwise reissued (etc.) at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Easter and Michaelmas Fairs . Weidmann, Leipzig 1833, p. 457 ( books.google.de ).
↑ Map: Vue des montagnes de Tenerife prize des environs de laguna 1836 OCLC 606533350 .
↑ Silesian views from the Giant Mountains in XIV. Aquatint sheets. Silesian Digital Library, accessed October 17, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hoessel, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German etcher and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1824

[1] General directory of those books which were either completely reprinted or otherwise reissued (etc.) at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Easter and Michaelmas Fairs . Weidmann, Leipzig 1833, p. 457 ( books.google.de ).

[2] Map: Vue des montagnes de Tenerife prize des environs de laguna 1836 OCLC 606533350 .

[3] Silesian views from the Giant Mountains in XIV. Aquatint sheets. Silesian Digital Library, accessed October 17, 2019 .