Helvetica — ART AND ANTIQUES & MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Adrian Zingg was a Swiss artist, draftsman, etching artist and teacher who spent most of his artistic life associated with the School of Fine Arts in Dresden. Professor. One of the founders of the Dresden school of landscape painting.
His favourite subjects were the rocks of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains around the lower Elbe up to the present day Czech-German border, in today's national parks in Bohemia and Saxon Switzerland.
In 1769, Adrian Zingg became a member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1787 a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
In 1803 he was appointed a professor at the Academy of Engraving Arts in Dresden. Later he was appointed engraver at the Saxon Court.
Rudolph Ackermann the Elder was a German and British inventor and publisher, founder of Ackermann & Co.
He was the son of a master saddler, learned the craft and in time achieved a high art in carriage making, designing carriages and coaches. In 1794 Ackermann opened a printing and picture store in London, which quickly became popular. The following year he opened a printing shop at 96 Strand - thus began the printing business of the Ackermann dynasty, which lasted for over two hundred years.
Between 1808 and 1810. Ackermann published the first of his sumptuous plate books, The Microcosm of London, with beautiful hand-colored aquatints. This work established his reputation as a book publisher, and he subsequently published many more elaborate illustrated books. Ackermann also gained widespread fame for the periodical he founded in 1809, the Repository of Art, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics. This popular journal, published monthly until 1828, contained articles and illustrations of various kinds, especially on fashion, social and literary news.
Ackermann's business flourished, and by the end of 1820 he had established offices in Central and South America. Continuators of the Ackermann dynasty were in the printing business until the end of the twentieth centur
Rudolf Bodmer was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and engraver.
Rudolf was the older brother of the famous painter Johann Carl Bodmer (1809-1893), with whom he started his own business around 1825. They produced graphic prints especially for the Zurich publisher F. S. Füssli. Rudolf Bodmer became a skilled printmaker and produced a large number of aquatints of landscape and architectural views, particularly of castles and palaces in the Middle Rhine for a wide variety of publishers.
Gabriel Ludwig Lori the Elder was a Swiss landscape painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, printmaker and master of etching.
He was known in Bern for his albums of landscapes of Italian and central Switzerland. In 1797 he moved to Herisau, where he worked with his son, the painter Gabriel Laurie the Younger (1784-1846), on a series of views of Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1812, Laurie returned to Bern and co-founded the Bern Society of Artists.
Mathias Gabriel Lori the Younger was a Swiss landscape painter, draughtsman, watercolorist and master of etching.
He mastered the art of painting under the guidance of his father, the painter Gabriel Ludwig Lori the Elder (1763 - 1840). In collaboration with his father, Matthias created the album "A Pictorial Journey from Geneva to Milan". He also co-authored a famous book on Swiss costume with 55 fine engravings.
