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Monument to Alois Senefelder in Solnhofen. Problems with the printing of his play Mathilde von Altenstein caused him to fall into debt, and unable to afford to publish a new play he had written, Senefelder experimented with a novel etching technique using a greasy, acid resistant ink as a resist on a smooth fine-grained stone of Solnhofen limestone.
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Godefroy Engelmann, Courcy Castle, lithograph, 1826 Godefroy Engelmann was born in 1788 in Mühlhausen, a small town near the France/Switzerland/Germany border. At the time of his birth Mulhouse was a free German republic associated with the Swiss Confederation, but was annexed by France 10 years later.
Lithography was invented by Alois Senefelder [1] in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1796. In the early days of lithography, a smooth piece of limestone was used (hence the name "lithography": "lithos" (λιθος) is the Ancient Greek word for "stone"). After the oil-based image was put on the surface, a solution of gum arabic in water was applied ...
The Good Shepherd The Guardian Angel. Plockhorst was born in Braunschweig, Germany, where he had a 5-year education in lithography at the Collegium Carolinum, after which he trained to be a painter with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Dresden in 1848, with Carl von Piloty in Leipzig and Munich, and finally with Thomas Couture in Paris in 1853.
Hermann Joseph Mitterer (8 October 1762, [1] Altenmarkt, Osterhofen, Lower Bavaria – 25 April 1829, Munich), was a German drawing teacher, founder of Munich's Feiertägliche Zeichnungsschule (Holiday Drawing School) in 1792 and co-founder of Feiertagsschule München (Holiday School Munich) in 1793, forerunners of later vocational schools.
He learned lithography in 1817, from Johann Michael Mettenleiter , in Munich. The following year, he returned to Hamburg with a team of specialists, in a joint venture with Johannes Michael Speckter, to establish the first lithography firm in Northern Germany. The company proved to be very successful, although Herterich personally continued to ...
Horst Janssen (14 November 1929 – 31 August 1995) [1] was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator.He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings.