Adrian Zingg

Adrian Zingg ( born April 15, 1734 St. Gallen, † May 26 1816 in Leipzig) was a Swiss painter, draftsman, etcher and engraver. He was a pioneer of modern landscape painting in Dresden.

Life

Adrian Zingg received his term training with his father, the steel cutter Bartholomew Zingg, and then went on engraver Johann Rudolf Holzhalb into teaching. In 1757 he worked for the Bernese landscape painter Johann Ludwig Aberli which it, inter alia, Views from Switzerland let stand. Together with the medalist Johann Caspar Mörikofer from Bern traveled both in 1759 to Paris, where, among other things Zingg seven years worked with the engraver Johann Georg Wille. In 1764, he was appointed by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn as an engraver to the newly founded Academy in Dresden, where he worked as a teacher from 1766. He had an intensive exchange with the professor of the Dresden Academy Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, who acted as a mentor for Zingg. In 1774 Zingg began after the death of Dietrich, to complete its prints that late work and published a complete edition of 87 sheets. In 1769, he was also a member of the Vienna Academy, and in 1787 a member of the Berlin Academy. In 1803 he was appointed professor of copper engravers at the Dresden Academy, he also bore the title of electoral Hofkupferstechers. At Zingg's most famous pupils included Carl August Richter and his son Ludwig Richter, Heinrich Theodor Wehle further and Christoph Nathe.

Adrian Zingg was known especially for his landscape paintings in sepia technique. He concentrated on the presentation of the Thuringian Forest, parts of Bohemia and especially the Saxon Switzerland which he had wandered in the 1780s and 1790s. Zingg is common with his friend Anton Graff as the creator of the name Saxon Switzerland for the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Both were attracted by the landscape of their homeland, the Swiss Jura, remembered, are to be found in the similar landforms.

Importance

The aim of Zingg's representations was the greatest accuracy in the reproduction of the landscapes. The student Zingg Ludwig Richter criticized in his memoirs whose Mannerist design. Although Zingg enjoyed a high reputation among his contemporaries, his works were often found after his death for artistically inferior. Nevertheless, they are for today's viewer not only as a document of Saxon history of interest. Zingg is seen today as an important pioneer and trendsetter for Dresdner romance, and influenced by his choice of subject and his romantic transfiguring views of real landscapes artist far beyond his circle of students, such as Caspar David Friedrich.

Work

  • Adrian Zingg copper engravings (1804 )

Gallery

The Kuhlstall in Saxon Switzerland, 1786

Potsdam - View from a distance, Engraved after a painting by Johann Christian Reinhardt, 1805

Tributes and Exhibitions

  • In Dresden the Zinggstrasse was named after Adrian Zingg in Mickten district.
  • 2012 devoted to the Dresden State Art Collections and the Kunsthaus Zurich the artist for the first time a retrospective.
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