Johann Stephan Capieux

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Johann Stephan Capieux (born January 8, 1748 in Schwedt / Oder ; † June 8, 1813 in Leipzig ) was a German illustrator of Huguenot descent.

Life

Johann Stephan Capieux was probably a son of the Schwedt wine merchant Etienne Capieux and belonged to the French Reformed community there. He went to the Leipzig Art Academy and became a student of Adam Friedrich Oeser . From 1769 Capieux worked in the studio of the landscape and history painter Johann Adam Fassauer († 1787). From 1773 he gave drawing lessons at the Leipzig Academy.

Later he went to the Hamburg painter JG Wagner and in 1775 became an anatomical and scientific draftsman in Halle (Saale) . From 1782 Capieux was a drawing teacher at the University of Leipzig . In 1801 he became a master. Just two days after his death in 1813, Johann Friedrich Schröter (painter) applied for his successor and for the transfer of his pension to him, which also happened.

He was a member of the Natural Research Society in Halle and the Leipzig Economic Society .

Works

Individual evidence

  1. The date of death given on the city of Schwedt's website is incorrect. E. Th. Richter: Year booklet on the history of Leipzig and calendar for the memorial days of its most remarkable inhabitants, Leipzig 1863, p. 101 f.
  2. ^ Johann Georg Meusel : Das Gelehre Deutschland, Vol. 5, Lemgo 1820, p. 315. "Capieux (Johann Stephan) died on June 8th 1813."
  3. Mario Todte: Fencing, riding and dancing master at the University of Leipzig (Studies on Culture and History Vol. 1, edited by Lars-Arne Dannenberg and Matthias Donath ), Bernstadt ad Eigen 2016, p. 165. ISBN 978-3- 944104-12-6
  4. ^ Richard N. Wegner: The Leipzig University Draftsman Johann Friedrich Schröter (1770-1836). In: Sudhoffs archive for the history of medicine and the natural sciences 34 (1941), pp. 251–260. Incidentally, Wegner also wrongly stated July 8, 1813 as the date of Capieux's death on p.

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