Godefroy Engelmann

Godefroy Engelmann (or Gottfried Engelmann; born August 17, 1788 in Mulhouse, † April 25, 1839 ) was a German - French lithographer.

Life

Godefroy Engelmann was the son of a wholesaler from Mulhouse, from his family came two mayor of this city. He was educated in French-speaking Switzerland, in La Rochelle, Bordeaux and Paris and perfected his knowledge of the art of lithography 1813/14 in Munich with Ferdinand Piloty, Strixner and Johann Baptist Stuntz, before he returned with a Lithografenausrüstung to his homeland.

1816 taught Engelmann, who was married to the daughter of a cotton goods from Mulhouse since 1809, in Paris in the Rue Casette 18 a lithographic Anstalt, after the Société d' Encouragement had been sent some of his 1815 leaves very praised. He produced there, encouraged about by Pierre Antoine Mongin, especially artists lithographs after works by Horace Vernet, Evariste Fragonard and many others.

Engelmann was in 1837 patented his method of chromolithography, which made ​​it possible to print high-resolution and detailed colorful illustrations and posters. It was characterized with respect to the existing method of colored lithograph by the fact that he analytically decomposed the image into the primary colors so you could theoretically run the pressure with only four plates. Nevertheless, later color lithographs with up to 21 plates were printed. The method was used until the 1930s by numerous publishers.

The printed by Engelmann book illustrations include 100 images in Scenic Travel in Brazil by Johann Moritz Rugendas.

Representation from Vimonts phrenologischem work

Three stone castle in Alsace after a painting by Bichebois