Franz Burchard Dörbeck
Franz Burchard Dörbeck (21 February [O.S. 10] 1799 in Fellin – 2 October [O.S. 20 September] 1835 in Fellin) was a Baltic German graphic artist and caricaturist born in Fellin (now Viljandi, Viljandi County, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia[1]
From 1814 to 1816 Dörbeck studied engraving with Fritz Neyer in St. Petersburg. After the early death of his first wife, Dörbeck moved to Riga where he was active from 1820 as a portrait artist. In 1823 Dörbeck moved to Berlin, Kingd I m of Prussia where he continued as a graphic artist and book illustrator. He gained fame with his caricatures published in newspapers. Dörbeck died in 1835 in Viljandi.
In the 1960s one of the streets in Berlin's Spandau district was named after him: Dörbeckweg.[2]
In Estonian cultural history Dörbeck is known as the author of the only surviving portrait of Kristjan Jaak Peterson, the founder of modern Estonian poetry.
See also
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[edit]- ^ Richard E. Marschall; Maurice Horn, eds. (1980). The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. p. 147. ISBN 0-7910-4855-1.
- ^ (in German) Dörbeckweg at luise-berlin.de
External links
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Media related to Franz Burchard Dörbeck at Wikimedia Commons
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- 1799 births
- 1835 deaths
- People from Viljandi
- People from Kreis Fellin
- Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire
- Illustrators from the Russian Empire
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire
- Immigrants to the Kingdom of Prussia
- Artists from the Kingdom of Prussia
- German caricaturists
- 19th-century Estonian artists
- 19th-century Estonian male artists