Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch

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Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch (* approx. 1720 in Hamburg ; † 1802 or 1803 there ) was a German engraver.

Life

Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler after Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard

Fritzsch was the son of the court copper engraver Christian Fritzsch and his wife Anna Elisabeth (nee Gebien). His older brother Christian Friedrich Fritzsch also became a copper engraver, both of whom learned the profession from their father in his workshop in Schiffbek when they were children . He worked in Leipzig and Amsterdam before returning to Hamburg, where he is said to have “died in poverty”. He engraved numerous book illustrations and portraits, including a portrait of Abbot Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler after Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard , which was auctioned in Leipzig in 1858.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Raspe : Fritzsch (Fritsch), Johann Christian Gottfried . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 502 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Rudolph Weigel (ed.): Collection of engravings, drawings, sculptures etc . Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1858, p. 89 , No. 1426 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Fritzsch, Johann Christian Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritsch, Johann Christian Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1802
Place of death Hamburg