Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Georg Friedrich Schmidt ( born January 24, 1712 Schönerlinde in Berlin, † January 25, 1775 in Berlin) was a painter, engraver and etcher.

Life and work

Georg Friedrich Schmidt visited since 1727, the Academy, was formed after he had served from 1730 to 1736 in the artillery corps in Paris under the engraver Nicolas Larmessin on. As he set out in 1737 on the way to Paris accompanied him to the engraver Johann Georg Wille from Strasbourg there. In Paris, he wanted to work independently, and so he asked the portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud to give him some of his paintings for the conversion into a stitch. Rigaud was in the portrait of the Count d' Evreux, the he implemented to the satisfaction of the painter in an engraving. In 1742 he obtained admission into the French Academy.

In 1744 he accepted an appointment as a court engraver to Berlin in 1757 to St. Petersburg, where he stood out among other things, the portrait of Empress Elisabeth and organized an engraver school. As of 1762, he was back to Berlin, where he died on 25 January 1775. Schmidt has both leaves in regular, shiny, but somewhat cold sting designed as particularly witty etchings in which he completely joined to Rembrandt, whose etchings he also has sometimes imitated. The number of its leaves amounts to 200

Schmidt was a friend of the court painter Antoine Pesne. From him Schmidt was a painting ( portrait / elbow ) of its relatives and the conveyor, the merchant Henry Esquire Voguell (* 1681), probably in 1746, to paint.