Johann Friedrich Bause

Johann Friedrich Bause ( born January 3, 1738 in Halle ( Saale), † January 5, 1814 in Weimar ) was a German engraver.

His parents were Christian Gottlieb Bause (* February 10, 1696 in Halle) and Sophia Elisabeth, born Dryander. Early orphaned, he continued his self-study in the art from. 1759, he worked in Augsburg briefly headed by Johann Jacob Haid. His artistic role model was the Parisian engraver Johann Georg Wille. In Augsburg he met Anton Graff know who painted a portrait of Bause.

In 1763 he married Henriette Charlotte Hall in Brno, with whom he had two daughters. The older one, Friderike Charlotte, had a talent for music, but died at age 21.

In 1766 he went from Halle to Leipzig, where he was in the other at the Art Academy professor of art of engraving and trained one of the best portrait engraver of his time. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge Minerva of the three palm trees. Since 1786, he was an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

His younger daughter Juliane Wilhelmine Bause (1768-1837) married the Bank Mr. Karl Eberhard Löhr (1763-1813), a son of Eberhard Heinrich Loehr in Leipzig and etched a series of landscapes. The granddaughter married Georg Keil ( 1781-1857 ).

When around 1809 wore his eyesight, he made one last trick of his son. As in 1813, the French General Jean Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova had his recently widowed daughter evicted from their home, he followed her to Weimar.

The court sculptor Carl Gottlieb Weisser created a monument for his grave.