Samuel Amsler

Samuel Amsler, engraved in 1835 by his pupil Heinrich Merz after Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Samuel Amsler (born December 17, 1791 in Schinznach , † May 18, 1849 in Munich ) was a Swiss engraver .

Life

The son of the medical officer and farmer Jakob Amsler had lessons from Johann Heinrich Lips from 1810 , after which he studied in Munich . In 1816 Amsler went to Rome and in 1829 he became a professor at the Art Academy in Munich . He is considered one of the main masters of the Nazarene reproduction engraving . His students included Wilhelm von Kaulbach , Heinrich Merz and Carl Arnold Gonzenbach . Amsler's nephew Jakob Amsler-Laffon was a well-known mathematician and engineer.

... as an engraving by Amsler; signed A // S

Copper engravings after drawings by Friedrich Overbeck for Hermann Lückes The Entry of Alexander the Great in Babylon (marble frieze by Bertel Thorvaldsen ), published among other things as New Edition, 3rd revised impression, Leipzig: A. Dürr, 1875

Tapan Bhattacharya: Amsler, Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf: Amsler, Samuel . In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 263 ( digitized version ).
Hans Rudolf Matter-Zulauf: Samuel Amsler, copper engraver and art professor, 1791–1849, Schinznach and Munich. Schinznach village 2005.
Meyer, N. Artist Lexicon
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, cultural studies from three centuries . Stuttgart: Cotta 1859
Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld : Amsler, Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 416-427.
Jakob Melchior Ziegler, The life and works of Samuel Amsler, copper engraver (1791-1849) . Zurich 1850 (New Year's sheets of the artist society in Zurich for 1850; the new order X) Digitized at Google Books
Samuel Amsler . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 27, Part 1. Weimar 1851. pp. 352 f.

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