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Charles Fuchs
Carl Friedrich Fuchs (28 October 1803 – 5 March 1874) was a German lithographer and photographer based in Hamburg. Life Born in Bordeaux, Fuchs grew up in Hamburg at the beginning of the 19th century under difficult family circumstances. At the age of 25, he came to Frankfurt via stations that were not always known. There, he learned the art of lithography from Fr Emile Simon from Strasbourg. A little later he married Simon's daughter and Frenchified his first name. on Artnet Lithographic Institute of Charles Fuchs Around 1832, Fuchs opened a lithographic institute in Hamburg, since the privilege of the Johannes Michael Speckter, Speckter family had fallen in 1828 to be the only ones allowed to produce lithographs. Fuchs quickly became one of the most important lithographers in Hamburg, alongside the brother ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithographer
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author and actor Alois Senefelder and was initially used mostly for musical scores and maps.Meggs, Philip B. ''A History of Graphic Design''. (1998) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p 146, .Carter, Rob, Ben Day, Philip Meggs. ''Typographic Design: Form and Communication'', Third Edition. (2002) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 11. Lithography can be used to print text or images onto paper or other suitable material. A lithograph is something printed by lithography, but this term is only used for fine art prints and some other, mostly older, types of printed matter, not for those made by modern commercial lithography. Traditionally, the image to be printed was drawn with a greasy substance, such as oil, fat, or wax onto the surface of a smooth and flat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
