Johann Friderich Clemens

Johann Friderich Clemens portrayed by Jens Juel in Paris (1776/1777)
portrait collection at Frederiksborg Palace .

General Montgomery dies

Johann Friderich Clemens also Johan Frederik Clemens (born November 29, 1749 in Gollnow ; † November 5, 1831 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish engraver of German origin.

Life

Johann Friderich Clemens came to Copenhagen from Pomerania as a child and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art at the age of eleven , where he owed the admission to the sculptor Simon Carl Stanley . He was initially trained in painting and also earned his living as a decorative painter. Then after several attempts he aroused the interest of the copper engraver Johann Martin Preissler , who accepted him as a student in 1769/1770 and then promoted him throughout his life. On the initiative of Preissler and the sculptor Johannes Wiedewelt , for whom he had previously cut 28 plates of illustrations for a luxury edition of Ludvig Holberg's Peder Paars published in 1772 , he received a Paris grant in 1773. Clemens stayed in Paris until 1777, where he was under the influence of the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin and became engaged to his fellow artist Marie Jeanne Crévoisier (1755–1791). In 1777 he traveled to Geneva with Jens Juel , where he made vignettes for Charles Bonnet's oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie . In the autumn of 1778 he returned to Copenhagen. He became a Danish court engraver and married his fiancée in 1781. In 1786 he became a member of the academy. Several portraits from this period, including those of members of the Danish court, represent his work. In 1788 he and his wife moved to Berlin , where in four years they produced the large sheet of Frederick II's return from a review based on a model by the Scots Edward Francis Cunningham . After his wife died of tuberculosis in Berlin, he moved to London in 1792 and stabbed Montgomery's death there as a commissioned work based on a template by John Trumbull . In 1795 he returned to Copenhagen with his second wife, an Englishwoman, and in 1818 became a professor at the Copenhagen Academy. He held this position until his death.

literature

• FJ Meier: Clemens, Johan Frederik . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 1-4 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Leo Swane : Clemens, Johan Frederik . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 77 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

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