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Frenzel, Johann Gottfried Abraham
(b Dresden, 1 Jan 1782; d Dresden, 6 Nov 1855). German printmaker, draughtsman and writer. He studied drawing under Cajetan Toscani (1742–1815) and Mietsch at the Dresden Akademie der Bildenden Künste. Later, as a student of Johann Adolph Darnstedt (1769–1844), he became involved with engraving, especially landscape subjects. In 1809 he began work at the Dresden Gallery of Engravings and Drawings, established by Christian Gottlieb Dolst (1740–1814); on Dolst’s death in 1814, Frenzel took over the running of the gallery. During this time he established a considerable reputation as an innovative printmaker, and his engravings, notable for their technical virtuosity, painterly effects and fidelity to the model, entered royal collections in Dresden. His main subjects were 17th-century landscapes by such artists as Claude and Ruysdael. Frenzel also contributed five large plates for the album Dresden mit seinen Prachtgebäuden und schönsten Umgebungen (1808) and produced a succession of individual prints of architecture and landscapes. The best-known example of his book illustration is Maximilian Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied’s Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815–1817 (Frankfurt, 1820).
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