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Köpping, Karl
(b Dresden, 24 June 1848; d Berlin, 15 July 1914). German printmaker, painter and designer. He trained at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich from 1869, and learnt the technique of etching from Johann Leonhard Raab (1825–99). In 1876 in Paris he met Charles Albert Waltner (1846–1925), who taught him etching, also Eugen Jettel (1845–1901), Mihály Munkácsy (1844–1909), Hugo Charlemont (b ?1850) and Max Liebermann; he encouraged the latter to take up etching. In 1877 he published his etching after Liebermann’s Siblings (1876; priv. col.) in the Gazette des beaux-arts; in 1878 the periodical L’Art published his etchings after Rembrandt and Titian, and a year later he produced an etching after Ribera’s St Agnes (1641; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Alte Meister), which prompted the Parisian publisher Charles Sedelmeyer to give him a number of commissions. Works after Munkácsy, Rembrandt, Gainsborough and Frans Hals followed. Köpping’s reproductions after Munkácsy in 1882 brought the latter’s pictures a wider audience and contributed to his reputation.
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