Karl August Grossmann

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Karl August Großmann , also Carl August Grosmann (* 1741 in Königsbrück ; † around 1798) was an engraver , publisher and etcher in Augsburg .

Life

Karl August Großmann was born in Königsbrück in 1741 as the son of a servant of the Königsbrück gentleman August Heinrich von Friesen . Karl August's brother was the porcelain painter in Meißen , Christian Gotthelf Großmann , who was born in Königsbrück in 1737 . After completing his training, Karl August Großmann moved to Augsburg and married Anna Lydia Orting there on August 27, 1765. In September 1769, their nine-week-old son Christian Friderich died in Augsburg. Großmann died in the late 18th century, around 1798.

plant

Karl August Großmann received his training in Dresden from the steel engraver and royal court engraver Johann Stephan Seeber. First he worked as a gold engraver in Dresden. At some point he settled in Augsburg. There he made a name for himself with his engravings. Well-known are, for example, his sixteen city views of German cities or the sheets in the Württemberg calendar published from 1778 to 1779. As a copper engraver, he mastered the "a la grecque" design that was emerging in his day. This includes ornaments in a meander shape, known from ancient Greece. Großmann's book “Latest Locksmith Work” hardly received any attention. As a publisher, in 1775 he was granted Kramer Justice, the privilege for art and publishing. He founded the Großmann publishing house in Augsburg and published art prints. The twelve engravings in Johann Martin Miller's bestseller “Siegwart, a monastery story” are also by Karl August Großmann. Großmann's students included the copper engraver Johann Müller from Nördlingen, the copper engraver Carl Ernst Christoph Hess and the miniature painter Johann Ludwig Stahl.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist Lexicon: or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers etc . EA Fleischmann, 1837 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  2. ^ Paul von Stetten: Art, trade and handicraft history of the imperial city of Augsburg . bey CH Stage, 1779 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  3. ^ KG Saur Publisher: Grondona- Grysuk . Saur, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Correct list of those of all old and young people, both sexes, who in the past ... year in this of salvation. Rom. Imperial City of Augsburg, Evangelical Part, died and were buried: including each person's age, day of their burial .... 1769 . 1769 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist Lexicon: or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers etc . EA Fleischmann, 1837 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  6. ^ KG Saur Publisher: Grondona- Grysuk . Saur, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  7. ^ General artist lexicon ... 1810 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Explanations of the ideas engraved in copper, from the history of the imperial city of Augsburg, in historical letters to a woman . Stage, 1765 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist Lexicon: or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers etc . EA Fleischmann, 1837 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  10. ^ Paul von Stetten: Art, trade and handicraft history of the imperial city of Augsburg . bey CH Stage, 1779 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  11. ^ Gustav Ebe: The late Renaissance: Art history of the European countries from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 18th century . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-94355-3 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  12. ↑ The great book of ornaments . Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag eK, 2004, ISBN 3-938164-71-9 ( google.de [accessed on October 1, 2017]).
  13. ^ Smithsonian Libraries: Blacksmithing since the end of the renaissance . Leipzig, H. Seemann successor, 1902 ( archive.org [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  14. ^ Adolf Brüning : Blacksmithing since the end of the Renaissance . BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95454-742-5 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Gerhild HM Komander: The change of the "Sehepuncktes": the history of Brandenburg-Prussia in the graphic from 1648-1810 . LIT Verlag Münster, 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2417-9 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: Die Monogrammisten: and those known and unknown artists of all schools, who have used a figurative symbol, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same etc. to designate their works; taking into account the printer's marks, the stamp of the old gold and silversmiths .... A - CF. 1 . Hirth, 1858 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  17. ↑ From A. to O. 1810 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-097344-8 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
  19. ↑ Gerhild HM Komander: The change of the "Sehepuncktes": the history of Brandenburg-Prussia in the graphic from 1648-1810 . LIT Verlag Münster, 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2417-9 ( google.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Großmann, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grosmann, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engraver, publisher and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsbrück
DATE OF DEATH around 1798