(b Mulhouse, 17 Aug 1788; d Mulhouse, 25 April 1839). French lithographer and publisher of German birth. After commercial training in Switzerland and in France at La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he studied painting and drawing in Jean-Baptiste Regnault’s atelier in Paris. In July and August 1814 he visited Munich to study the new art of lithography. In March 1815 he founded La Société Lithotypique de Mulhouse, and in June 1816 he opened a workshop in Paris. Engelmann was instrumental in introducing lithography to France. He developed numerous improvements (see LITHOGRAPHY, §§I and II), including lithographic wash in 1819 and a frame for registration (patented in 1837), which gave chromolithography the technical means needed for its commercial and artistic development. His presses produced large numbers of prints; particularly noteworthy are numerous plates for Baron Taylor’s monumental work Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France (1820–63).

• Engelmann, Godefroy
  • Isabey: (1) Jean-Baptiste Isabey
  • Lithography, §II, 1(iii): Invention and incunabula, before c 1818: France
  • Master printers, §II: The influence of lithography
  • Prints, §III, 3(ii): Planographic processes: Lithography and related processes
  • illustrated writings
    • Vafflard, Pierre-Auguste
  • methods
    • Printing, §2: Origination of the image
  • printmakers
    • Bellangé, Hippolyte
    • Boys, Thomas Shotter
    • Rugendas: (2) Johann Moritz Rugendas
  • works
    • Lithography, §II, 2(i): Commercial developments, after c 1818
    • Prints, §III, 6(ii)(b): Colour printing, 19th–20th centuries