Aloys senefelder biography of albert

  • Alois Senefelder, who was born in Prague on 6 November 1771, was the son of a Munich actor.
  • Alois Senefelder was a German playwright and actor and the inventor of lithograph.
  • Prior to the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder in 1796, printers used a variety of relief (letterpress, woodcut &c.) and intaglio .

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    Alois Senefelder was a German playwright and actor and the inventor of lithograph. His invention allowed 18th-century artists to easily reproduce their works multiple times.

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    EARLY LIFE

    • Johann Alois Senefelder was born on November 6, 1771, in Prague.
    • His father was an actor at the Royal Theater of Munich.
    • Alois re

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      Title page to Jean Midolle, skiva du Moyen Âge (Strasbourg, 1836) ( NK3630 .M53 1836)

      In recent months U.Va. has had unusual opportunities to enhance its already strong collections on 19th-century planographic printing. Prior to the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder in 1796, printers used a variety of relief (letterpress, woodcut &c.) and intaglio (engraving, etching &c.) processes for replicating skrivelse and image. Senefelder’s innovative method of printing from a flat surface offered printers a new tool which, thanks to continuing refinement during the 19th century, emerged as the leading method for printing multicolor illustrations. And by the later 20th century, offset lithography would supplant letterpress as the preferred method for printing text.

      A lithographed plate from Konrad Ludwig Schwab. Anatomische Abbildungen des Pferdekörpers (Munich, 1820 ) (SF765 .S45 1820)

      Because the technologies of lithography inform many aspects of 19th-century pr

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      Title:Portrait of Alois Senefelder

      Artist:Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, Menzenschwand 1805–1873 Frankfurt)

      Sitter:Alois Senefelder (German, Prague 1771–1834 Munich)

      Date:1805–73

      Medium:Graphite and brush and gray wash; framing lines in graphite

      Dimensions:sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 5/8 in. (23 x 16.9 cm)

      Classification:Drawings

      Credit Line:Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008

      Object Number:2008.357

      Signature: In graphite at lower left signed and inscribed: "Aus dem Erinnerung gezeichnet | von Winterhalter".

      Inscription: Verso in graphite: "Alois Senefelder" (19th-century handwriting); at lower left: "1628|l/ct." [?] (19th-century handwriting); lower right; below inscribed "14" (19th- or 20th-century handwriting)

      Marking: an unidentified collector's stamp

      Unidentified Collector; Vendor: Emanu

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