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Johann Heinrich Lips

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and created portraits of numerous German creative artists and intellectuals. He quit his position five years later, following a rift with Goethe, and returned to Zürich. In 1796, he was married and, the following year, became a citizen there. During this time, he illustrated the complete works of
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who was impressed by Lips' talent for drawing, persuaded his parents to let him study art, and arranged an apprenticeship for him with the painter,
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From 1780 to 1782, with financial assistance, he made a study tour of Germany which included time at the Drawing Academy in
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From 1774 to 1776, he worked with Schellenberg to produce the illustrations for Lavater's famous work
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His father was the village surgeon and barber. His Latin teacher, the local pastor, introduced him to
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In 1789, thanks to a recommendation from Goethe, he was able to become a Professor at the
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Johann Heinrich Lips 1758–1817 – Ein Zürcher Kupferstecher zwischen Lavater und Goethe.
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Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniß und Menschenliebe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kloten
Zürich
copper engraver
Johann Caspar Lavater
Johann Caspar Füssli
etcher
Johann Rudolf Schellenberg
Winterthur
treatise
physiognomy
Henry Fuseli
Mannheim
Düsseldorf
Anthony van Dyck
Rome
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
Goethe
hypochondria
Weimar Princely Free Drawing School
Friedrich Schiller
Christoph Martin Wieland




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