Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler

Θέση: Leipzig

Γεννημένος: 1770

Θάνατος: 1844

Βιογραφία:

Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler (June 26, 1770 – April 27, 1844) was a German copper engraver and illustrator. He is considered a significant Leipzig city chronicler, especially of the wars between 1806 and 1813. Geißler was the son of Johann Gottlob Geißler, a goldsmith, and his wife Johanna Christina, née von Ryssel. He attended the Leipzig Art Academy from 1784. The decisive influences on his work came from the people and character sketches of the Leipzig illustrator Johann Salomon Richter. In 1790, Geißler went to St. Petersburg and worked there as a drawing teacher. Two years later, he entered the service of the naturalist Peter Simon Pallas and accompanied him on an expedition to southern Russia in 1793/1794. There, he drew not only botanical motifs but also landscapes and inhabitants. After his return to Leipzig in 1798, he used these images to illustrate Pallas' travel descriptions and books about the customs and traditions of Russian ethnic groups, which he published together with Johann Gottfried Gruber, Johann Gottfried Richter, and Friedrich Ferdinand Hempel. In Leipzig, he also illustrated children's books and youth literature and was a pictorial chronicler of the French occupation between 1806 and 1813. He created a large number of cycles and individual sheets, as well as caricatures and representations of individual moments from the Battle of Leipzig.