Christian Ernst Stölzel
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Christian Ernst Stölzel (10 February 1792, Dresden - 4 April 1837, Dresden) was a German painter, etcher and engraver.
Biography[]
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He was born to Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he took lessons in perspective from . He also spent many evenings in self-study at the Skulpturensammlung.
, an engraver and art professor, who provided him and his two siblings with their primary education. At the age of sixteen, he decided that he too would become an engraver. In pursuit of that goal, he went to theA serious illness, from 1812 to 1813, prevented him from pursuing his career. No sooner had he recovered, than he found himself conscripted for the Befreiungskriege against Napoleon. Altogether, he lost three years to these interruptions.
In 1822, he began a journey, on foot, to Rome. During his stay there, he became an honorary member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He returned to Dresden in 1828.
He found employment as a drawing teacher at the Dresden Academy in 1830. His notable students there included Georg Heinrich Busse. After his death, he was succeeded by Carl Gottlieb Peschel.
andHe never married, and had no known children.
Sources[]
- Christian Ernst Stölzel in Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, #15, 1837, Part I, Weimar 1839. pg.406
- Christian Ernst Stölzel in Abend-Zeitung, 1822, pg.83
External links[]
Media related to Christian Ernst Stölzel at Wikimedia Commons
- 1792 births
- 1837 deaths
- German painters
- German etchers
- German engravers
- Dresden Academy of Fine Arts faculty
- Artists from Dresden