Johann Conrad Felsing

Johann Conrad Friedrich Felsing (born March 1, 1766 in Gießen ; † December 3, 1819 in Darmstadt ) was an engraver and copper printer.

Life

Johann Conrad Felsing was the son of Johann Conrad Felsing (original spelling Völtzing ; 1733-1808), citizen, cutler and instrument maker in Gießen, and Margaretha Katharina Felsing, née Best (1734-1804).

He completed a watchmaker's apprenticeship in which he was already engraving clocks and thus began to copy engravings. In 1783 he studied mathematics in Giessen. In 1787 he began another apprenticeship in Darmstadt with the then court copper engraver Göpfert, who committed suicide in 1788. The Hereditary Prince of Hesse, who later became Ludwig I (Hessen-Darmstadt) , sponsored him annually. In 1796 he became court copper engraver. In 1797 he moved into the building of his future copper printer, which was soon successful in business.

Felsing distinguished himself particularly through his topographical works, for which he developed a new type of representation. One of his last and best works was the military-topographical plan of Mainz (1816). He also produced many portraits in a dotted manner .

In 1799 he married Dorothea Jost (1766-1834), with whom he had three children. His sons Johann Heinrich and Jakob were also engravers.

gallery

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  Topographical-military plan of the city and fortress Mainz

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  Dotted copper engraving, portrait of Johannes Calvin

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  Siegfried Leberecht Crusius , copperplate portrait (1818)

literature

• Felsing, Conrad . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 38, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22778-7 , p. 121.
• Friedrich Noack : Felsing, Conrad . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 377–378 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Adolf Beyer: Darmstadt's art, culture and artists. Darmstadt: Leske, 1955.
• The Felsings from Darmstadt 1797 - 1987; Engraver - printer - publisher. Exhibition at the Kunsthalle Darmstadt from October 18 to November 15, 1987; Kunstverein Darmstadt eV: 1987.
• Luigi Zangheri (Ed.): Gli accademici del disegno: elenco alfabetico. Firenze: Olschki 2000, ISBN 88-222-4943-7 .
• General Artist Lexicon Volume 38, 2003, p. 121.
• Unknown:  Felsing, Johann Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 617 f.

Web links

Commons : Johann Conrad Felsing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johann Conrad Felsing in the Hessian biography
• Title vignette by Felsing for Wilhelm Heinses Anastasia and the game of chess , 1803.