Johann Friedrich Bolt

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Johann Friedrich Bolt self-portrait mezzotint technique 1799

Johann Friedrich Bolt (born March 22, 1769 in Berlin ; † September 10, 1836 there ) was a German draftsman , engraver and etcher.

Life

Bolt was a student and employee of Daniel Berger and was friends with Johann Gottfried Schadow .

He mainly worked in the dotted manner and made reproductions of old masters , but many also based on contemporary Berlin draftsmen. Most of the work was intended for letterpress printing , including many portraits .

So in reported Hamburg living historian and publicist Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz in a letter dated August 15, 1800 at Bolt from the finished manuscript of his history of Gustavus Vasa , king of Sweden , for which he one of Bolt engraving wishes and wrote:

“I hope you will grant my request and do it yourself. […] There is no better picture of this great king in Europe, and I have this one from the Königl. Library from Stockholm preserved. It will therefore be all the more interesting and do the German artist all the more credit, which is why I would like to see it in very good hands; also the book to which it is placed will not be an everyday book [...] "

The desired portrait appeared a year later (1801) as a frontispiece in a two-volume publication by the Cotta publishing house in Tübingen . Another portrait of Prince Heinrich of Prussia , engraved by Bolt, appeared in 1805 in Adam Heinrich Dietrich von Bülow 's biography about the prince.

Works

Examples of his works:

A handwritten directory of Bolt's works and copies of almost all of his engravings intended for book printing are in the holdings of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett.

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personal data
SURNAME Bolt, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1836
Place of death Berlin