Moritz Retzsch
Illustration — Die Schachspieler (The Chess Players) Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi, later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie, among them a copy of the Sixtinian Madonna.
Also recorded as Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch · f. m. a. retzsch · m. retzsch · F. A. Moritz Retzsch
Moritz Retzsch
Moritz Retzsch · https: skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/311478 · Public domain
- Born
- 1779 · Dresden.
- Died
- 1857 · Oberlößnitz.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Occupation
- illustrator · painter · printmaker
- Fields
- viticulture
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Die Schachspieler (The Chess Players) Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi, later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie, among them a copy of the Sixtinian Madonna.
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He was made a member of the Academy in 1817 and professor in 1824. • Illustration — Scene from Faust The Cotta publishing house commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent. Goethe liked his work, and he illustrated works by other famous authors, most notably Friedrich Schiller's Lied von der Glocke (43 plates), a Shakespeare Gallery (80 plates), and Bürger's Ballads (15 plates). He also did oil paintings on classical subjects, and portraits. Many of his works were created in a house in the Lößnitz, with a view of the Elbe Valley. Retzsch died in Oberlössnitz/Radebeul.
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is viticulture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Moritz Retzsch is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Nationalmuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Führermuseum.
Moritz Retzsch is recorded as illustrator, painter and printmaker.
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1779
Moritz Retzsch born at Dresden.
1857
Moritz Retzsch died at Oberlößnitz.
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Dresden.
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Oberlößnitz.
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Retzsch, Moritz, Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
Die Titelkupfer von Moritz Retzsch zu Goethes Ausgabe letzter Hand, Goethe Yearbook 21, 2014
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- 1.Reztsch, Moritz August. kunstkontor-wiesbaden.com.
- 2.Wein-Bau mit Stil: Architekten von Gut Wackerbarth
- 3.Winzerhäuser in Radebeul. 2003.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- Das Winzerfest der Weinbaugesellschaft im Königreich Sachsen am 25.10.1840, Dresde, Meinhold & Söhne.
- Ballou. Moritz Retzsch. Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion. F. Gleason. 1854. 133. oui.
- Retzsch, Moritz. Men of the Time. Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters. David Bogue. Londres. 1856. 926. 659. oui.
- Gustave Vapereau. Dictionnaire universel des contemporains. Retzsch (Moritz). Paris. 1858. Hachette. 1459. oui.
- New International Encyclopedia. Retzsch, Moritz. 1905. oui.
- Retzsch, Moritz. Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. oui.
- H. Heine, Die Harzreise, Leipzig, Ph. Reclam jun. Verlag, 16 édition, 1961, p. 48.
- Faust. Rütten & Loening. 1. 410. 1969.
- H. J. Neidhardt, Die Malerei der Romantik in Dresden, Leipzig, Seemann Verlag, 1976.
- J. Bäumel, « Vom landesherrlichen Bacchus-Triomphe zum Aufzug der "Hofewintzer" », dans : 600 Jahre Hoflößnitz, historische Weingutsanlage, pages 125-139, Dresde, M. Sandstein Verl., 2001 ; G. H. Vogel, Vivat Bacchus, Bacchus lèbe ..., pages 154-162.
- Christine Roger. L'art de la silhouette selon Moritz Retzsch. La réception de Shakespeare en Allemagne de 1815 à 1850. propagation et assimilation de la référence étrangère. Peter Lang. 2008. 488. 292. oui.
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