Kaspar Braun (13 August 1807 – 29 October 1877) was a German

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Biography

He was born at

Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; Hessian: ''Aschebersch'', ) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg, despite being its administrative seat, is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...

, first studied painting in the Munich Academy, and then turned his attention to

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, in which he received instruction from Brevières in Paris and Dessauer in Munich, and in this branch of art he made his career. In conjunction with Dessauer, he established a graphic art institute in Munich in 1839. He became associated with Friedrich Schneider in 1843, and established the humorous publication ''

Fliegende Blätter The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Cou ...

''.

Works

Among the numerous works to which he contributed engravings are the following: * ''Das

Nibelungenlied The (, or ; or ), translated as ''The Song of the Nibelungs'', is an epic poetry, epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The is based on an oral tradition of Germanic hero ...

'', after the drawings of Schnorr and Neureuther * ''Volkskalender'', with illustrations after Kaulbach and Cornelius * '' Göttz von Berlichingen'' * ''Münchner Bilderbogen''

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* Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, Kaspar 19th-century German engravers 1807 births 1877 deaths People from Aschaffenburg Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Artists from the Kingdom of Bavaria