Adrian Zingg (1734 - 1816)
1734-04-15St. Gallen, Switzerland1816-05-26Leipzig, GermanyGermany, Switzerland
Adrian Zingg
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.
Date and place of birt: | 15 april 1734, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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Date and place of death: | 26 may 1816, Leipzig, Germany |
Nationality: | Germany, Switzerland |
Period of activity: | XVIII, XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Engraver, Landscape painter, Painter |
Genre: | Mountain landscape, Landscape painting |
Art style: | Romanticism |