Johann Gottlob Henschke

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Johann Gottlob Henschke (born September 8, 1771 in Dresden , † September 18, 1850 there ) was a German landscape draftsman and engraver .

Life

Lößnitz panorama, view from the Spitzhaus to Dresden. Detail from an etching by Johann Gottlob Henschke, early 19th century

Johann Gottlob Henschke was born on September 8, 1771 in Dresden as the son of the tobacco trader Johann Gottlob Henschke. From 1784 he received drawing training at the Dresden Art Academy with Christian Gottlob Mietzsch, Cajetan Toscani and Adrian Zingg . He created mainly sepia-inked views from the Dresden and Meißner surroundings ( Lößnitz , Wackerbarths Ruhe and Rochlitz as well as von Sörnewitz or the Spaargebirge ) as well as portraits (e.g. Johann Sebastian Bach).

literature

  • H. Keller: News from all artists living in Dresden. Dresden 1788, p. 211.
  • CJG Haymann: Dresden's writers and artists, some recently deceased, some now living. Dresden 1809, p. 388.
  • Anke Fröhlich: Landscape painting in Saxony in the second half of the 18th century. Weimar 2002, pp. 136-138. - DBA II .
  • Henschke, Johann Gottlob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 420-421 .
  • Thorsten Albrecht, Brigitte Heise (eds.): Born to see: Hand drawings from the Goethe era and the 19th century: the Dräger collection. E. A. Seemann 2007, ISBN 3-86502-149-2 .
  • Maren Gröning, Marie Luise Sternath: The German and Swiss drawings of the late 18th century. Volume 9. Descriptive catalog of the hand drawings in the Albertina graphic collection , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98739-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Henschke, Johann Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1850
Place of death Dresden