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Bartsch, Friedrich Joseph Adam, Ritter von

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    Full Name: Bartsch, Friedrich Joseph Adam, Ritter von

    Other Names:

    • Friedrich Joseph Adam von Bartsch

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1798

    Date Died: 1873

    Place Born: Vienna, Vienna state, Austria

    Place Died: Vienna, Vienna state, Austria

    Home Country/ies: Austria

    Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Classical, and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)


    Overview

    Author of a history of Greek and Roman artists. Bartsch was the son of the more famous, Adam von Bartsch. From 1814 onwards he assisted his father in the imperial library collection of prints. In 1818 he published a catalog of his father’s collection, the Catalogue des estampes de J. Adam de Bartsch. He succeeded his father at the imperial print collection in 1827. In 1835 Bartsch issued a history of artists of the classical Greek and Roman era, Chronologie der griechischen und römischen Künstler. Like his father, too, he was an etcher.


    Selected Bibliography

    Catalogue des estampes de J. Adam de Bartsch. Vienna: De l’impr. d’A. Pichler, 1818; Die Kupferstichsammlung der K. K. Hofbibliothek in Wien: In einer auswahl ihrer merkwürdigsten Blaetter. Vienna: Braumüller, 1854; Chronologie der griechischen und römischen Künstler: bis zu Ablauf des fünften Jahrhundertes nach Christi Geburt: nebst vorangehender Uebersichtstafel der aegyptischen Kunst. Vienna: Bei Rohrmann und Schweigerd, 1835.


    Sources

    Rieger, R. “Bartsch, Friedrich Josef Adam.” Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. vol. 7. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1993, p. 312.




    Citation

    "Bartsch, Friedrich Joseph Adam, Ritter von." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/bartschf/.


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