Samuel Amsler
Illustration — Samuel Amsler Samuel Amsler (17 December 1791 - 18 May 1849), a Swiss engraver, was born in Schinznach, in the canton of Aargau. He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips (1758–1817) and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and chiefly at Rome. In 1829, he succeeded his former master Hess as professor of engraving in the Munich academy.
Samuel Amsler
Heinrich Merz / Wilhelm von Kaulbach · Google Books Neujahrsblatt der Künstlergesellschaft in Zürich für 1850. · Public domain
- Born
- 1791 · Schinznach-Dorf.
- Died
- 1849 · Munich.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- artist · engraver · university teacher
- Teachers
- Johann Heinrich Lips · Carl Ernst Christoph Hess
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Illustration — Samuel Amsler Samuel Amsler (17 December 1791 - 18 May 1849), a Swiss engraver, was born in Schinznach, in the canton of Aargau. He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips (1758–1817) and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and chiefly at Rome. In 1829, he succeeded his former master Hess as professor of engraving in the Munich academy.
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The works he designed and engraved are remarkable for the grace of the figures, and for the wonderful skill with which he retains and expresses the characteristics of the original paintings and statues. He was a passionate admirer of Raphael, and had great success in reproducing his works. Amsler's principal engravings are: The Triumphal March of Alexander the Great, and a full-length Christ, after the sculptures of Thorwaldsen and Dannecker; the Entombment of Christ, and two Madonnas after Raphael; and the Union between Religion and the Arts, after Overbeck, his last work, on which he spent six years. His portrait album, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, includes a fine head of the poet Friedrich Rückert.(1) A family portrait of Amsler by Wilhelm von Kaulbach is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.(2)The portrait on the right is also by von Kaulbach (1833).
Training under Johann Heinrich Lips and Carl Ernst Christoph Hess is recorded. Johann Leonhard Raab is recorded as having studied under Samuel Amsler. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Work by Samuel Amsler is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art and Print Collection.
Samuel Amsler is recorded as artist, engraver and university teacher.
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1791
Samuel Amsler was born in 1791 at Schinznach-Dorf.
1849
Samuel Amsler died in 1849 at Munich.
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- 1.Reiner Kaltenegger, Gräber des Alten Südfriedhofs München - Inschriften · Biographien , 1. Auflage 2019, PDF-Ausgabe, S. 2099
- 2.Schiermeier/Scheungraber, Alter Südlicher Friedhof in München, Übersichtsplan, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-6-3 Titel auf Verlagsseite
- 3.Angaben der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
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He trained under Johann Heinrich Lips and Carl Ernst Christoph Hess. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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