Richard Brend'amour
Franz Robert Richard Brend’amour (16 October 1831, Aachen – 22 January 1915, Düsseldorf) was a German wood-engraver, printer and publisher. Biography He came from a Huguenot family; the first son of Johann Nikolaus Brend’amour, a police inspector, and his wife, Maria Sophia née Leruth. From 1846 to 1849 he was apprenticed to a wood-engraver named Eustach Stephan, in Cologne. When Stephan moved to Paris in 1850, he continued his training with Johann Anton Ramboux, a lithographer. He also translated classic woodcuts from the Renaissance art, Renaissance. In 1856, he went to Düsseldorf, where he established the Xylographische Kunstanstalt Brend’amour & Cie, an "art institute", with several assistants. His business grew steadily so, in 1866, he brought in his brother-in-law, Rudolf Goldenberg, to handle its financial management. His illustrations for literary works brought him widespread recognition outside of Germany. He also provided them for magazines and newspapers ...
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