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Last Name Frisch
Given Name Johann Christoph
alt. Names J. C. F. ; J. / Johannes C. / Chr. Frisch ;
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Year born 1738 in Berlin
Year died 1815
Place of death Berlin
Father's occupation engraver -> Ferdinand Helfreich Frisch
Relatives uncle -> Philipp Jacob Frisch; ->Johann Leonhard Frisch (grandfather)
Education painting & copper engraving by father; pupil of Christian Bernhard Rode; Rome.
Country of Activity Germany
Worked for father & Johann Leonhard Frisch: Insecten in Teutsch-Land 1720-38 & Vorstellung Vögel 1743-63
Patronage Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften; Marquis d'Argens; King Frederick II
Collaborators father, uncle, grandfather Frisch; engravers Daniel Berger, Eberhard Siegfried Henne; artists CB Rode, Carle Van Loo
Techniques natural and ornithological history drawing, copperplate engraving; etching ; hand-colouring, portraiture, and mural painting ;
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Published sources AKL 45 2005: 258 & 260 ; ThB 12 1916: 491ff. : Kärin Nickelsen: Zeichner Stecher, Berichte Wissenschaftsgesch. 29, 2006 ; Haffer, Hudde & Hillcoat 2014: 97 ;
other Potsdam, Rome. portraitist; member and director Berlin Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste); painted ceiling of planet orbits in Eremitage of Neuen Garten Potsdam
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