Godefroy Engelmann
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| Godefroy Engelmann | |
| Birth name | Godefroy Engelmann |
| Born | August 17, 1788 |
| Died | April 25, 1839 Mulhouse, France |
| Nationality | France |
| Field | Lithography and Chromolithography |
| Famous works | Numerous lithographic plates for the Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor edited collection of lithographs, entitled Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France |
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Godefroy Engelmann was born in 1788 in Mulhouse, a small town near the France/Switzerland/Germany border. At the time of his birth Mulhouse was a free 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.[1]
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 Munich to study lithography. The following spring, he founded La Société Lithotypique de Mulhouse. In June 1816 he opened a workshop in Paris.[2]
Engelmann is largely credited with bringing lithography to France[3], and later, commercializing Chromolithography. In 1937 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.[4].
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- The Cleveland Museum of Art - 5 artist works
