During my previous research on the history of "birds' eye views" I come across this eccellent German drawer, engraver, lithographer, author of great number of birds' eye views of German and Austrian cities, starting from the 1850's he was also a photographer. His work, only known in Germany, but never gathered in a monographic study, except for a degree thesis that focuses on a lithographic production regarding the only city of Lipsia, are in my opinion, absolutely unknown in Italy. Therefore they are worthy of a systemetic study. Christian Adolf Eltzner was born in Lipsia in June 1816: He started working as a carpenter and since 1840 he devoted himself to learning the incisory and litografic tecniques. In 1845 he set up the Glyphographisce Art Intitute Ahner & Eltzner with his wife, and in 1847 he published his first incision entitled "Plan von Leipzing" that faithfully riproduces the assonometric plant of XVI and XVII century. During the following years and until 1891, year of death, he produced a lot of bird's eye views pictures of cities he travalled in Germany and Countries nearby: Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, Dresden Hannover, Ausbourg, are only some cities portrayed according to this tecnique. The only image that isn't included in this geographical area in a view of Jerusalem in 1847, wich, for the setting and point of view, seems to be created according to previous prototypes. Another very popular iconographic typology that must be placed next to the "Vogelschauansichten", some of which performed flying over the city with a hot air balloon, is the panorama. As a matter of fact, Eltzner realized a lot of panoramas, preparatory sketches of which are still kept today, of the city of lipsia besides a Kreispanorama that is to say a circular panorama. Moreover there are plenty drawings of his hometown.
Il paesaggio urbano nella produzione iconografica di Christian Adolf Eltzner (1816-1891)
Daniela Stroffolino
2014
Abstract
During my previous research on the history of "birds' eye views" I come across this eccellent German drawer, engraver, lithographer, author of great number of birds' eye views of German and Austrian cities, starting from the 1850's he was also a photographer. His work, only known in Germany, but never gathered in a monographic study, except for a degree thesis that focuses on a lithographic production regarding the only city of Lipsia, are in my opinion, absolutely unknown in Italy. Therefore they are worthy of a systemetic study. Christian Adolf Eltzner was born in Lipsia in June 1816: He started working as a carpenter and since 1840 he devoted himself to learning the incisory and litografic tecniques. In 1845 he set up the Glyphographisce Art Intitute Ahner & Eltzner with his wife, and in 1847 he published his first incision entitled "Plan von Leipzing" that faithfully riproduces the assonometric plant of XVI and XVII century. During the following years and until 1891, year of death, he produced a lot of bird's eye views pictures of cities he travalled in Germany and Countries nearby: Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, Dresden Hannover, Ausbourg, are only some cities portrayed according to this tecnique. The only image that isn't included in this geographical area in a view of Jerusalem in 1847, wich, for the setting and point of view, seems to be created according to previous prototypes. Another very popular iconographic typology that must be placed next to the "Vogelschauansichten", some of which performed flying over the city with a hot air balloon, is the panorama. As a matter of fact, Eltzner realized a lot of panoramas, preparatory sketches of which are still kept today, of the city of lipsia besides a Kreispanorama that is to say a circular panorama. Moreover there are plenty drawings of his hometown.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
