- Eduard Mandel
Eduard Mandel (February 15, 1810 – October 20, 1882) was a German
engraver .Mandel was born in
Berlin . He studied from 1824 with the map engraverJohann Karl Mare , and from 1826 to 1830 in the studio ofLudwig Buchhorn . His first engraving was a portrait ofFriedrich Wilhelm III after his own design (1830). He completed his first larger work in 1835, "Der Krieger und sein Kind", after a painting byTheodor Hildebrandt ; it was so well received that he was assigned by thePrussian Art Association to make an engraving after "Lurlei" byKarl Begas (completed 1839). In 1837, he was appointed a member of theAkademie der Künste . In 1840 he traveled toParis , to study further withLouis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont andAuguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers , among others. While there, he produced the engraving "Italienischen Hirtenknaben" after a painting by Pollack. After his return he produced a series of engravings considered among the finest in 19th-century German engraving. He was head of the engraving studio at the Akademie der Künste from 1856. His most important work, done shortly before his death, was an engraving after theSistine Madonna ofRaphael .Engravings
* Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm III (1830)
* "Der Krieger und sein Kind", after Theodor Hildebrandt (1835)
* "Lurlei", after Karl Begas (1839)
* "Italienischen Hirtenknaben", after Pollack (1840)
* Self-portrait, afterAnthony van Dyck (1841)
* Self-portrait, afterTitian (1843)
* Portraits ofFriedrich Wilhelm IV andElisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria
* Portrait ofCharles I of England (1850)
* Several portraits ofFrederick the Great
* "Madonna Colonna ", after Raphael (1855)
* "Ecce homo", afterGuido Reni (1858)
* Portrait of a young Raphael (1860)
* "Madonna della Sedia ", after Raphael (1865)
* "La Bella", after Titian (1868)
* "Panshanger Madonna", after Raphael (1872)
* "Maria und Johannes", afterBernhard Plockhorst
* "Die Ehebrecherin", after Bernhard Plockhorst
* "Sistine Madonna", after RaphaelReferences
* cite encyclopedia | title = Mandel | encyclopedia =
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon | edition = 4th edition | year = 1890 | | volume = 11 | pages = p. 180 | url = http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=110877Note
* "This article, or an earlier version, was translated from an article in the 4th edition of the "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon", a publication now in the public domain."
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