Karl August Senff

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View of the city of Narva by Karl August Senff (1812)

Karl August Senff (* 12. March 1770 in Kreypau , today Saxony-Anhalt , † January 2 . Jul / 14. January  1838 greg. In Tartu , today Estonia ) was a painter, graphic artist and engraver .

Life

Karl August Senff was born near Merseburg as the son of the Protestant theologian Karl Friedrich Senf (1739-1814). Actually, he should have studied medicine . However, Senff initially went to Leipzig to study art with Adam Friedrich Oeser from 1788 to 1793 . From 1795 he learned from Christian Leberecht Vogel , who was a professor at the Art Academy in Dresden . Until 1802 Senff lived as a private student and freelance artist.

From 1803 Senff was the head of the drawing school and copper engraver at the reopened university in Tartu ( Dorpat ) in Livonia . In 1818 he received the title of associate professor .

The painter Adolf Senff was a brother.

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Portrait of Professor Gustav von Ewers by Karl August Senff (1838)

The artistic focus of Karl August Senff was on copperplate engravings, pastel painting and graphic art. For study purposes, Senff wrote seven sample books with a total of 69 copperplate engravings and aquatint sheets. His textbook Geometric Drawing from 1828, which contains fifty picture panels, also became famous. Senff created numerous portraits and landscapes. In addition, he put u. a. Engravings of nineteen buildings of the University of Tartu in front.

Karl August Senff was the teacher of numerous well - known Baltic German artists, including Friedrich Ludwig von Maydell , August Philipp Klara , August Matthias Hagen , August Georg Wilhelm Pezold , Woldemar Friedrich Krüger and Friedrich Sigismund Stern .

literature

  • Inge Kukk: The early years of the drawing school at the University of Dorpat under the direction of Karl August Senff. In: 13th and 14th Homburg Talks (1992/1993). Issue 14, pp. 279–288 (= publications of the MCA Böckler-Mare Balticum Foundation).
  • Wilhelm Neumann: Karl August Senff. A Baltic engraver . Franz Kluge, Reval 1895 ( digitized version from the Estonian National Library ).
  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 30, Leipzig 1936, p. 497

Web links

Commons : Karl August Senff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl August Senff. In: Display of the Germanic National Museum. Nuremberg 1899.
  2. ↑ Sirje Helme, Jaak Kangilaski: Lühike Eesti kunsti ajalugu. Tallinn 1999, ISBN 5-89920-222-X , p. 64.
  3. ↑ Eesti elulood. Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 469f. (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14)
personal data
SURNAME Senff, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German painter, engraver and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreypau , today Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1838
Place of death Tartu , now Estonia