Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Joseph Brodtmann

Swiss artist (1787-1862)

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1787

Place of Birth: Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 14-May-1862

Profession: lithographer

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Karl Joseph/Ioseph Brodtmann (3 February 1787 – 14 May 1862) was an accomplished Swiss artist and lithographer, as well as a printmaker, publisher and bookseller who worked in Zurich and Schaffhausen. Brodtmann's natural history lithographs include Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's works on reptiles and birds, published in the early 1830s.
Brodtmann also produced natural history lithographs, as Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche. Brodtmann was born in Überlingen.
He produced his lithographs in the post-Linnaean "'Age of Enlightenment".
Natural history specimens were depicted in hand-coloured sets for the use of biologists and the aristocracy, the latter being not only great patrons of the arts and sciences, but including many who were actively interested in fauna and flora.
The artists respected scientific accuracy and often displayed a remarkable sense of aesthetics.
Brodtmann died, aged 75, in Basel.