Godefroy Engelmann I (1788 - 1839)
Godefroy Engelmann I
Godefroy Engelmann the Elder was a Franco-German lithographer and chromolithographer. 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 to Munich, Germany to study lithography, a German invention. The following spring, he founded La Société Lithotypique de Mulhouse. In June 1816 he opened a workshop in Paris. Engelmann is largely credited with bringing lithography to France,[1] and later, commercializing chromolithography. In 1837 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.
| Date and place of birt: | 17 august 1788, Mulhouse, France |
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| Date and place of death: | 25 april 1839, Mulhouse, France |
| Nationality: | France |
| Period of activity: | XIX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Engraver, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Landscape painting, Portrait |
| Art style: | Romanticism |
