Adrian Zingg

Adrian Zingg received his professional training from his father, the steel cutter Bartolomäus Zingg, then became an apprentice with the engraver {{ill|Johann Rudolf Holzhalb|de}}. In 1757, he worked in Bern, painting vedute with Johann Ludwig Aberli. Together with the medalist Johann Caspar Mörikofer (1732–1790), he travelled to Paris in 1759, where Zingg worked for seven years with the engraver Johann Georg Wille.

In 1764, he was supported by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn as an engraver at the newly founded Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked as a teacher from 1766. He had an intensive relationship with professor Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, who acted as a mentor for Zingg. In 1774, after the death of Dietrich, Zingg began to complete his late work and published a total of 87 sheets.J. F. Linck: Monographie der von dem … Hofmaler und Professor … C. W. E. Dietrich radirten, geschabten und in Holz geschnittenen malerischen Vorstellungen: nebst einem Abrisse der Lebensgeschichte des Künstlers. Berlin 1846, S. 35ff.

In 1769, he also became a member of the Vienna Academy and, in 1787, a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1803 he was appointed professor of copper etching at the Dresden Academy. Some of Zingg's famous students included {{ill|Carl August Richter|de}} and his son Adrian Ludwig Richter, Heinrich Theodor Wehle and Christoph Nathe.

• This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia

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• Johann Kaspar Fuessli: Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweitz. Vol.3. Orell, Zürich 1770, pp. 230–239.
• {{Cite ADB|45|323|323|Zingg, Adrian|Hermann Arthur Lier|ADB:Zingg, Adrian}}
• Sabine Weisheit-Possél: Adrian Zingg (1734–1816). Landschaftsgraphik zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik. LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-643-10361-1}}
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett; Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick; Claudia Schnitzer; Bernhard von Waldkirch (Ed.): Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-942422-86-4}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SijYT2U9zHc Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik]
• {{SIKART|4022973|Zingg, Adrian|Autor=Peter Wegmann|Jahr= 2018}}

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