Johann Friedrich Nagel

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Johann Friedrich Nagel (born July 3, 1765 in Waldheim / Saxony , † May 3, 1825 in Meißen ) was a Saxon painter.

Life

Grunewald Hunting Lodge from the north-west , gouache from 1788
Caputh Castle , gouache from 1795
Chinese tea house in Sanssouci around 1790

His works include baroque landscape painting as well as depictions of palaces and gardens in Berlin , Brandenburg and Saxony .

Johann Friedrich Nagel completed an apprenticeship as a landscape painter at the Art Academy in Dresden . He was by Elector Friedrich August III. sponsored by Saxony by enabling him to study trips to Italy . In the 1880s, Nagel worked in Prussia , where he mainly carried out commissioned work for King Friedrich Wilhelm II . In 1788, for example, he made a series of gouaches under the title “Collection of all beautiful and strange parts in all Koenigl. Prussian States ” . A series of partially colored, partially gray washed etchings with different views of Halle , the Petersberg near Halle, the Brocken , Freienwalde , Frankfurt (Oder) , Buckow , Brandenburg , Spandau , Halberstadt and Magdeburg published. After 1790, Nagel went back to Saxony and worked in the Meissen porcelain factory from 1793 . In most of his works he depicts areas on the banks of the Elbe between Dresden and Meißen and follows Adrian Zingg in the Meißen vedutas , but with stronger colors.

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personal data
SURNAME Nagel, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldheim , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1825
Place of death Meissen