Drawing On Paper - Colloseo - By Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin (1760 - 1820)

Drawing On Paper - Colloseo - By Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin (1760 - 1820) Signature lower left Dating from 1806 Born in 1760 and died in 1820, Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin was a German engraver and draftsman. After following the teachings of his pastor father in Badenweiler, he attended the Latin school in Müllheim. In 1776, when he was 16 years old, he began an apprenticeship in engraving at the Kunstschule in Basel with Christian von Mechel, for 10 years. In 1786, he moved to Rome to continue his studies. In 1790, he became interested in nature and architecture in his drawings and engravings, which are mainly in sepia. During the revolutionary period, he was in Germany (1798, 1800 to 1801) where he worked during his last stay mainly at the Dresden gallery. He spent the last 20 years of his life in Rome, which very clearly influenced his artistic practice. Visible at the Galerie de Courcelles Antiquités, at 97 rue de Courcelles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.