Louis Friedrich Sachse

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Louis Friedrich Sachse (born July 12, 1798 in Berlin ; † October 29, 1877 ibid) was a German lithographer , publisher, daguerreotypist and art dealer .

Life

Louis Friedrich Sachse's father was Johann Christoph Ambrosius Sachse, a wig maker from Dessau . Louis Friedrich Sachse graduated from high school in 1815 and was an apprentice at the Königlich Lithographisches Institut in Berlin in 1825. In 1827 he trained at the lithographic institute Knecht, Senefelder et Cie. in Paris and with Alois Senefelder in Munich. In 1828 he opened the lithographic institute “L. Sachse & Co ”in Berlin as well as a publishing house and trade in German and French graphics. He was the first publisher of Adolph von Menzel and made a significant contribution to the young artist's further career. Among other things, he commissioned him in 1832 with eleven lithographs to illustrate Goethe's poem by the artist Erdenwallen , which were positively discussed and probably contributed to Menzel's admission to the Berlin Society of Younger Artists in 1834.

Between 1834 and 1861, Sachse made numerous trips to German countries and other European countries (Paris, London, Vienna, Brussels, Prague, Warsaw), including trips to Paris in 1834, 1835 (accompanied by Carl Blechen and Philipp Hermann Eichens ), 1837, 1838, 1839, 1844, 1846 (accompanied by Franz Krüger ). From 1835 onwards he organized regular exhibitions of mainly French and German artists in his salon.

Just a few weeks after Louis Daguerre in Paris on 19 August 1839 patent for the daguerreotype had disclosed and documented in this way the beginning of photography, Sachse had first presented his photographs in Berlin. At the time, Sachse and Daguerre had known each other for a long time. Louis Sachse is therefore commonly referred to as the one who introduced photography in Germany. Sachse himself "daguerreotyped" until 1843.

In 1853, Sachse opened a permanent picture gallery in Berlin. In the early 1860s, his son Louis Alfred Sachse took over the business. After moving due to lack of space, the painting exhibition was reopened in 1874 under the name "Sachse's Internationaler Kunst-Salon" in Taubenstrasse . However, the following year the building had to be auctioned for financial reasons.

literature

  • Anna Ahrens: The pioneer. How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3
  • Anna Ahrens: Sachse, Louis Friedrich . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2013, pp. 249-251. ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8
  • Guido Josef Kern: Louis Friedrich Sachse, the founder of the Berlin art trade. A contribution to the history of modern Berlin art and culture . In: Journal of the Association for the History of Berlin . 51, year, 1934, issue 1, pp. 1–12 ( digitized version ). Also as a special edition Berlin 1934.
  • Annette Schlagenhauff: The art of acting: Louis Friedrich Sachse. Lithographer, art sponsor and art dealer in Berlin . In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 42 (2000), pp. 259–294.
  • Steffen Siegel (ed.): New light. Daguerre, Talbot and the publication of photography in 1839. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-7705-5736-3
  • Anne Schattmann: Sachse, Louis Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 100, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023266-0 , p. 299.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Busch: Adolph Menzel: Life and Work. Volume 2501 by Beck'sche Reihe, CH Beck, 2004, ISBN 3-406-52191-6 , pp. 6-7.
  2. ↑ James E. Cornwall: The history of photography in Berlin 1839 to 1900. Website of the association for the history of Berlin . Retrieved February 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Repetition. On the history of the daguerreotype in Germany . Original documents from the court art dealer Sachse. In: Photographische Mitteilungen , Vol. 26., 1889/1890, pp. 150f.
  4. ↑ Repetition. On the history of the daguerreotype in Germany , p. 181f.

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personal data
SURNAME Sachse, Louis Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer, publisher, daguerreotypist and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1877
Place of death Berlin