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Egid Verhelst the Younger (26 August 1733 – 13 January 1804) was a German painter, draughtsman, sculptor, and engraver.


Biography

He was born in
Ettal Ettal is a German municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria. Geography Ettal is situated in the ''Oberland'' area in the ''Graswangtal'' between the ''Loisachtal'' and '' Ammertal'', approx. 10 km north of Garmisch-Pa ...
, the third son of Egid Verhelst the Elder, a sculptor from
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. His older brothers Ignatz (born in 1726 in
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
) and Placidus (born in 1727 in Ettal) followed in their father's footsteps and became sculptors, while Egid's younger brother Aloys (born in 1747 in
Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
) became best known for his engravings. Verhelst learned the craft of engraving in
Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
from his brother-in-law Rudolph Störcklin, then studied in
Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
and finally learned from the famous
Johann Georg Wille Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille (5 November 1715, near Biebertal - 5 April 1808, Paris) was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer. Life and work He was the eldest of seven ...
in
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. He worked as an artist in Munich before being appointed academy professor and court copper engraver in
Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...
(capital of the
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) by
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria Charles Theodore (german: link=no, Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) reigned as Prince-elector and Count Palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777 to his ...
in 1765. It was in Mannheim that Verhelst founded his own engraving school, which he shaped in the Parisian style. His portrait prints, in which he immortalized many of his contemporaries, were particularly famous. In 1777 he followed the elector to the then Palatinate-Bavarian capital of Munich. It was once assumed that he died on an unknown date in 1818 in Munich. However, in 1914 it was discovered in the church records of the Jesuit Church in Mannheim that he died on 13 January 1804. Egid Verhelst was one of the teachers of the Bavarian court painter
Wilhelm von Kobell Wilhelm von Kobell (6 April 1766 – 15 July 1853) was a German painter, printmaker and teacher. Biography Kobell was born in Mannheim, the son of Ferdinand Kobell, a landscape painter who cited Claude Lorrain as his influence. Wilhelm's in ...
, as well as Stephan von Stengel, Karl Matthias Ernst and the Mannheim copperplate engraver Heinrich Sintzenich.''Geschichte Mannheims.'' Volume 1, 1907, p. 581
/ref> Also the Mannheim court painter Joseph Fratrel is counted among his students.


Further reading

* Ludwig Nieser: ''Verhelst, Egid II. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 622. * ''Verelst oder Verhelst, Egid.'' In:
Georg Kaspar Nagler Georg Kaspar Nagler (January 6, 1801 in Obersüßbach – January 20, 1866 in Munich) was a German art historian and art writer. Life and work Georg Kaspar Nagler, who came from a poor background studied from 1815 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Mu ...
:
Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon
'' Volume 20, München 1850, pp. 93–95. * ''Verhelst (Verelst), Egid d. Jüng''. In:
Hans Vollmer Hans Vollmer (16 November 1878 – 15 February 1969) was a German art historian. Life His father was the architect (1845-1920), his grandfather of the Hamburg marine painter and sculptor Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875). He was the older ...
: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Volume 34: Urliens–Vzal. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 250.


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* {{commons category inline, Egid Verhelst 1733 births 1804 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists 18th-century German sculptors German engravers Court painters German male painters German people of Flemish descent