Blasius Höfel (27 May 1792 – 17 September 1863) was an Austrian copper
engraver.
Life
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 [
fr].[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 [
de] and afterwards he worked with different
woodcut techniques. Around 1840 he invented the
line etching.
Josef Wünsch: Blasius Höfel. Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Kunst und Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Wien 1910 (
Online-Version)
^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,
ISBN978-3-87328-120-2, p. 455–458.
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