Christian Ernst Stölzel (10 February 1792, Dresden - 4 April 1837, Dresden) was a German painter, etcher and engraver.

Biography

He was born to , 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 the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he took lessons in perspective from . He also spent many evenings in self-study at the Skulpturensammlung. A 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

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. 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 and Georg Heinrich Busse. After his death, he was succeeded by

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. He 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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stolzel, Christian Ernst 1792 births 1837 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German etchers German engravers Academic staff of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts Artists from Dresden Artists from the Kingdom of Saxony