Blasius Höfel

Blasius Höfel (27 May 1792 – 17 September 1863) was an Austrian copper engraver.

Theodor Höfel: My uncle Blasius
Vienna Museum 1853, oil painting
17cm x 13cm, Inventory number 61170

Ludwig van Beethoven, Colour lithograph by Blasius Höfel after the drawing by Louis Letronne, 1814

Life

Blasius Höfel - Pius IX
Kmetijske in rokodelske novice 1847

Born in Vienna, Höfel studied drawing and painting from 1805 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien with Hubert Maurer. From 1807 he devoted himself primarily to chalcography. His most famous work is a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, with whom he also had personal contact. Höfel's copperplate engraving was commissioned by the Artaria publishing house in 1814 & Comp. on the basis of a drawing by Louis-René Letronne.[1] From 1820 to 1837 he worked as a drawing teacher at the military academy in Wiener Neustadt. On a study trip to Germany he met Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz and afterwards he worked with different woodcut techniques. Around 1840 he invented the line etching.

Höfel died in Aigen bei Salzburg at the age of 71.

Literature

Constantin von Wurzbach: Höfel, Blasius. In Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich 9th part. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 93–97 Höfel, Blasius Online
Josef Wünsch: Blasius Höfel. Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Kunst und Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Wien 1910 (Online-Version)
"Höfel Blasius". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 349 f. (Direct links to "p. 349", "p. 350")

References

Vgl. Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (ed.) among others: Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen. volume 1: Adamberger – Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven-Forschungsstelle an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2, p. 455–458.

External links

Literature by and about Blasius Höfel in the German National Library catalogue

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[1] Vgl. Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (ed.) among others: Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen. volume 1: Adamberger – Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven-Forschungsstelle an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2, p. 455–458.