Johann Burger

Johann Burger ( born May 31, 1829 in Burg AG; † May 2, 1912 in Munich) was a Swiss engraver.

Life

Burger received his first instruction of the landscape painter and engraver Jakob Suter in Zofingen and then learned from 1850 to 1856 especially the cardboard engraving from the Munich Academy under Julius Thaeter.

From there he visited Dresden and Florence and stayed two years in Rome. Returned to Germany in 1859, he devoted himself in Munich and the line style. One of his first works was the stoning of Stephen by Schraudolphs fresco image in the Speyer Cathedral; followed her in 1856 the Italian poet by Vasari ( Hopesche collection in London). In Rome, he stabbed 1858 Cornelius ' supervision whose Lady Macbeth, then two leaves after images of Hess in the St. Boniface Basilica in Munich and the Rape of Europa by Genelli, all in carton style. In line fashion, he stabbed the farmer and the broker by Vautier, the Rest on the Flight to Egypt by Van Dyck, the Jägerlatein after Griitzner (1875 ), the lady with the parrot after Mieris ( Pinakothek in Munich) and the Violanta to Palma Vecchio ( Belvedere in Vienna). His main work is the engraving after Raphael's Madonna della Sedia (1882).

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• Graphic Design ( Switzerland )
• Copper engraver
• Swiss
• Born in 1829
• Died in 1912
• Man