Godefroy Engelmann

Infobox Artist
name = Godefroy Engelmann


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birthname = Godefroy Engelmann
birthdate = birth date|1788|8|17|mf=y
birthplace = Mulhouse, France
deathdate = death date and age|1839|4|25|1788|8|17|mf=y
deathplace = Mulhouse, France
nationality = Franco-German
field = Lithography and Chromolithography
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works = Numerous lithographic plates for the Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor edited collection of lithographs, entitled Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France

Godfroy Engelmann was a 19th Cenutry Franco-German Artist.

Biography

Godefroy Engelmann was born in 1788 in Mühlhausen, a small town near the France/Switzerland/Germany border. At the time of his birth Mulhouse was a free German republic associated with the Swiss Confederation, but was annexed by France 10 years later. He died in that same town 62 years later (1839), from a tumor in his neck. [ [http://www.france-pittoresque.com/perso/58b.htm France Pittoresque - Personnage] ]

Engelmann trained in Switzerland and France at La Rochelle and Bordeaux, and he studied painting and sketching in Jean-Baptiste Regnault’s atelier in Paris. In the summer of 1814 he travelled to Munich, Germany to study lithography, a German invention. The following spring, he founded La Société Lithotypique de Mulhouse. In June 1816 he opened a workshop in Paris. [ [http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?1=1&searchType=artist&artistRef=5I9WZNQ724 Artfact - Artist Summary] ]

Engelmann is largely credited with bringing lithography to France [ [http://www.france-pittoresque.com/perso/58b.htm France Pittoresque - Personnage] ] , and later, commercializing Chromolithography. In 1837 he was granted an English patent for a process of chromolithography that provided consistently high quality results.

Throughout his life, he produced large numbers of prints, including numerous plates for Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor's celebrated collection of lithographs, Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France.

Engelmann's Paris printing company, "Engelmann et Graf" was passed on to his son, Godefroy Engelmann II (born 1819), who carried on his father's work with the same high artistic quality until his own death in 1897. [ [http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artists1.cfm?StartRow=1&LastName=engelmann&FirstName=godefroy&dosearch=Go&format=short Smithsonian Art Institute] ] .

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References

[http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/artist.asp?artistLetter=E&recNo=37 - The Cleveland Museum of Art - 5 artist works]

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