Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel

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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein : Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel (1828)

Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel (born January 1, 1782 in Dresden ; † November 6, 1855 there ), also known under the name "Johann Gottlieb Abraham", was a German landscape painter , draftsman , engraver and art writer.

life and work

Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel was the second child of Johann Gottfried Frenzel (1738–1809) and his wife Eleonore Friederike Köhler (1752–1802). At the age of 14 he went to the Dresden Art Academy , where he learned drawing from Cajetan Toscani (1742-1815) and copperplate engraving from Professor Johann Adolph Darnstedt (1769-1844). He was also a student of Christian Gottlieb Mietzsch (1742 -1799).

In 1809 he was initially a scribe and after the death of Christian Gottlieb Dolst (1740-1814) inspector of the "Gallery of Copper Engravings and Hand Drawings", as the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett , which was spun off from the Electoral Art Chamber in 1720 , was initially officially called. From 1844 until his death he was director of this oldest graphic collection in the German-speaking area. Frenzel also taught engraving and copperplate engraving at the "Royal Technical Educational Institute of Saxony", which is now the Technical University of Dresden .

In 1811 Frenzel married Johanne Magdalene Volenius on June 23rd, who gave birth to his son Friedrich August on September 10th, 1815.

Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel: Siebeneichen Castle , copper engraving

Frenzel made his copperplate engravings, which were characterized by technical virtuosity, graphic effects and a high degree of model fidelity, both from his own templates and from drawings by other painters such as B. Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael , Cornelis van Poelenburgh , Claude Lorrain , Rembrandt van Rijn , Johann Christian Klengel , Johann Gottfried Jentzsch (1759-1826) and Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber (1786-1863). For the illustrated book "Dresden with its magnificent buildings and most beautiful surroundings" published by the Dresden art dealer Heinrich Rittner, he made 5 large copper plates based on drawings by Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer and Christian Gottlob Hammer . Frenzel's prints of the book illustrations for Maximilian Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied 's trip to Brazil in the years 1815–1817, published in Frankfurt in 1820, also became very well known .

Frenzel continued to make a name for himself as an art writer and had a reputation for being an excellent art connoisseur. So he described and cataloged the artistic legacies of Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (1819), Countess von Einsiedel-Reibersdorf (1833/34), Count Franz von Sternberg-Manderscheid (I – IV, 1836–1842), from Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Rumohr (1846), Baron HA von Friesen (1847) and Johann Christian Klengel (1855). A description of the graphic collection of King August II also comes from his pen. Frenzel was a member of the Dresden Freemason lodge Zum golden Apfel .

When the Austrian landscape painter Josef Rebell fell seriously ill on a visit to Dresden in 1828 , Frenzel and Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein tried very hard to look after the sick person, but they could not avert his death. 10 days after Rebell's death, Vogel drew a portrait of Frenzel, which is in the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett. This picture is hand-signed with "Johann Gottfried Abraham".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Rittner: Dresden with its magnificent buildings and beautiful surroundings . Meinhold, Dresden 1818 ( digital copy of the SLUB Dresden ).
  2. ^ History of the Minerva Lodge to the three palms in Leipzig. Leipzig 1841, p. 57 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Frenzel, Johann Gottfried Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frenzel, Johann Gottlieb Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, draftsman, engraver and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1855
Place of death Dresden