Portrait of Amelie Elisabeth von Hessen, the first known mezzotint, by Ludwig von Siegen, 1642
Ludwig von Siegen (c. March 1609 Cologne – c. 1680 Wolfenbüttel, Germany) was a German soldier and amateur engraver, who invented the printmaking technique of mezzotint, a printing-process reliant on mechanical pressure used to print more complex engravings than previously possible. He was a well-educated aristocrat, and a Lieutenant-Colonel who commanded the personal guard of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), and acted as a personal aide to the ruler, with the title kammerjunker or Chamberlain.
LudwigvonSiegen (c. March 1609 Cologne – c. 1680 Wolfenbüttel, Germany) was a German soldier and amateur engraver, who invented the printmaking technique...
printmaking method was invented by the German soldier and amateur artist LudwigvonSiegen (1609–c. 1680). His earliest mezzotint print dates to 1642 and is...
invented in 1642 by LudwigvonSiegen, a German lieutenant-colonel who was also an amateur artist. Siegen may or may not have met Rupert: Siegen had worked as...
In 1642, the invention of metal-plate engraving (or Mezzotint) by LudwigvonSiegen brought higher-quality wedding invitations within the reach of the...
pound locks. The printmaking process of mezzotint is developed by LudwigvonSiegen. March (possible date) – Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician (died...
an influential work on the administration of small principalities. LudwigvonSiegen, aristocratic soldier and amateur artist, who invented the mezzotint...
1642: Mezzotint by LudwigvonSiegen 1708: Meissen porcelain, the first European hard-paste porcelain, by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in Meissen...
Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin), which is among his best works, was first published by Ludwig Tieck in Kleist's Hinterlassene...
brilliant style, that had great influence on 19th century etching. LudwigvonSiegen was a German soldier and courtier, who invented the technique of mezzotint...
mezzotint was done in Amsterdam in 1642 by Utrecht-born German artist LudwigvonSiegen. He lived in Amsterdam from 1641 to about 1644, when he was supposedly...
Lefèbvre En Claude Mellan En Robert Nanteuil En Gilles Rousselet, En, Et LudwigvonSiegen Me, En (invented Mezzotint) Sisto Badalocchio En Pietro Santi Bartoli...
Theodor von Waldeck-Eisenberg and his wife, Countess Marie Magdalene of Nassau-Siegen (1622-1647, daughter of William, Count of Nassau-Siegen). In 1664...
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university...
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