Carl Arnold Gonzenbach

Carl ( Arnold) Gonzenbach ( born July 21, 1806 St. Gallen, † June 13, 1885 ) was a Swiss painter, engraver and draftsman.

Gonzenbach formed first under Johann Jakob Lips in Zurich, then at Otto Felsing and Samuel Amsler in Munich, it at François Forster in Paris and recently in Italy. From 1838 he was based in Munich.

Works

Gonzenbach worked mostly for artists of classical and neo-German school in outline and board down. His main works are:

• Gunther and Brunhilde
• Siegfried and Kriemhild, after Julius Schnorr
• The death Winkelried
• The Oath on the Rütli and
• The Tellschuß, according to Ludwig Vogel
• The criminal verlorner of honor, after Kaulbach
• Five sheets of " The Life of a Witch "
• Four leaves "From the Life of an Artist " by Bonaventura Genelli
• Two sheets of Shakespeare's The Tempest, by Kaulbach
• After templates by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg Raab created three steel engravings for the 1859 published Schiller Gallery.
• Together with Alexander Rordorf Gonzenbach created an illustration for Dante's Divina Commedia after an oil painting by Carl Vogel von Vogelstein, which hangs in the Grand Ducal Palace delle Crociette to Florence.