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Adrian Zingg (April 15, 1734, St.Gallen – May 26, 1816,
Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik
* 1734 births 1816 deaths People from St. Gallen (city) Swiss Roman Catholics 18th-century Swiss painters 18th-century Swiss male artists Swiss male painters 19th-century Swiss painters 19th-century German male artists Dresden Academy of Fine Arts faculty 19th-century Swiss male artists {{Switzerland-painter-stub
Adrian Zingg (April 15, 1734, St.Gallen – May 26, 1816, Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
) was a Swiss painter.
Life
Adrian Zingg received his professional training with his father, the steel cutter Bartolomäus Zingg, then became an apprentice with the engraver . In 1757 he worked in Bern, paintingvedute
A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''.
Origins
This genre ...
with Johann Ludwig Aberli
Johann Ludwig Aberli (14 November 1723, Winterthur - 17 October 1786, Berne) was a Swiss painter and etcher.
Biography
He was born into a humble family. His father was a watchman. After completing his basic education, he became the student of a ...
. Together with the medalist Johann Caspar Mörikofer (1732–1790), he travelled to Paris in 1759, where Zingg worked for seven years with the engraver Johann Georg Wille.
In 1764 he was supported by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn as an engraver at the newly founded Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the produc ...
, where he worked as a teacher from 1766. He had an intensive relationship with professor Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (30 October 1712 – 23 April 1774) was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.
Biography
He was born at ...
, who acted as a mentor for Zingg. In 1774, after the death of Dietrich, Zingg began to complete his late work and published a total of 87 sheets.J. F. Linck: ''Monographie der von dem … Hofmaler und Professor … C. W. E. Dietrich radirten, geschabten und in Holz geschnittenen malerischen Vorstellungen: nebst einem Abrisse der Lebensgeschichte des Künstlers''. Berlin 1846, S. 35ff.
In 1769, he also became a member of the Vienna Academy
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
History
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...
and, in 1787, a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...
. In 1803 he was appointed professor of copper etching at the Dresden Academy. Some of Zingg's famous students included and his son Adrian Ludwig Richter
Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803June 19, 1884) was a German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles.
He was the most popular, and ...
, also Heinrich Theodor Wehle and Christoph Nathe.
References
*''This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia''Further reading
* Johann Kaspar Fuessli: ''Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweitz''. Vol.3. Orell, Zürich 1770, pp. 230–239. * * Sabine Weisheit-Possél: ''Adrian Zingg (1734–1816). Landschaftsgraphik zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik''. LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, * Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett; Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick; Claudia Schnitzer; Bernhard von Waldkirch (Ed.): ''Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik''. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012,External links
*Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik
* 1734 births 1816 deaths People from St. Gallen (city) Swiss Roman Catholics 18th-century Swiss painters 18th-century Swiss male artists Swiss male painters 19th-century Swiss painters 19th-century German male artists Dresden Academy of Fine Arts faculty 19th-century Swiss male artists {{Switzerland-painter-stub