Personalities Bause, Johann Friedrich

Engraver with a cutter, mainly a portraitist. His father, Christian Gottlieb Bause (1696-?), was the manager of a saltworks in Halle. Orphaned at an early age, he studied art on his own. In 1759, he worked for a short time in Augsburg under the direction of Johann Jakob Heid. He studied the engravings of G. Edelinck, R. Nan-teuil, P. Drevet, G. F. Schmidt. His role model was the works of the Parisian engraver of German origin Johann Georg Wille. In 1766, he moved from Halle to Leipzig, where he was appointed professor of engraving at the newly founded Academy of Fine Arts. In 1786, he became an honorary member of the Prussian Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. A year before his death, he moved to Weimar. Having reproduced the faces of famous contemporaries in his works, he became one of the best portrait engravers of his time.