Johann Gottlieb Samuel Stamm

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Johann Gottlieb Samuel Stamm (* 1763 in Meißen ; † January 12, 1814 Dresden ) was a Saxon landscape painter , engraver , watercolorist and lithographer . He developed from a reproduction engraver and painting copyist to a sensitive and technically versatile performer of romantic landscapes.

Life

Stamm, the son of a white lathe operator at the Meißner Porzellanmanufaktur , came to the Dresden Art Academy in 1783 to learn drawing, painting and etching during his six-year training. One of his teachers was the etcher and painter Johann Christian Klengel (1751-1824).

After completing his studies, he spent some time at Waldenburg Castle , where he worked for the Prince of Schönburg , Otto Carl Friedrich . This resulted not only in paintings of the Schönburg possessions, but also numerous views of the Zwickau Muldenland , some of which can be seen today in the Zwickau Art Collections , and copper engravings as graphic reproductions of Klengel's series of paintings in the Green Fields Park in Waldenburg .

In 1793 he went back to Dresden, where he ultimately spent most of his life as a freelance artist. There he created views of the Dresden area and copies, mostly watercolors of masterpieces from the Gemäldegalerie such as those by Jacob van Ruisdael and Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem , Jan Both , Claude Lorrain , Paulus Potter , Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich and Claude Joseph Vernet .

In addition, Stamm drew with chalk and pen, also worked with gouaches and oil paints and used a wide variety of techniques. Besides Klengel, Stamm was one of the first artists to try out the means of lithography . Stamm's works could be seen at many art shows in Dresden, for example at the exhibitions of the Dresden Academy.

The works of the versatile artist include picturesque views from the Meissen area, which reveal the influence of Johann Georg Wagner (1744–1767), as well as drawings delivered to the drawing school of the Meissen porcelain factory in 1795. An etching shows the inauguration of the August obelisk on Keulenberg in 1818.

Among other things, he also painted views of the village of Sörnewitz , today part of the collection of the Freiberg City and Mining Museum , as well as Tharandt Castle and the Ostragehege in Dresden. There are also views of Neuenburg Castle in Freyburg (Unstrut) , of the Dresden cannon boring mill at Weißeritzmühlgraben and of the Plauen reason .

According to address books, he had his residence on Johannisgasse between Georg - and Pirnaischem Platz in the Pirnaischen suburb of Dresden. Some sources give his first name with Gottlieb Samuel, others with Gottlob Samuel. There are also different information about the year of his birth, including 1764, 1767 and 1768.

Stamm's watercolors of the Dresden masterpieces were highly praised at the time. Although he was one of the most famous artists of his time, the next generation had already surpassed him. Georg Kaspar Nagler found that his etchings from his own drawings were not treated very painterly .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. 17th volume. Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1847, p. 212 f. ( Digitized version ).

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SURNAME Stamm, Johann Gottlieb Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stamm, Johann Gottlob Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1814
Place of death Dresden