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Christian Alsdorff
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'''Christian Alsdorff''' (died 1838) was an [[United States|American]] [[fraktur (folk art)|fraktur]] artist.
Nothing is known of Alsdorff's origins, and no record of his birth has been discovered. For many years he was a schoolmaster; his name appeared in a history of [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster County]], [[Pennsylvania]], years after his death. His earliest dated fraktur is a piece made for a student in [[Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Earl Township]] in that county in December 1791. Evidence shows that his career took him to [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery]] and [[Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Dauphin Counties]] as well as Lancaster County, and later in life to [[Mifflin County, Pennsylvania|Mifflin County]] as well. Stylistically his paintings indicate a familiarity with the work of [[Johann Adam Eyer]] and Johann Friedrich Eyer; in turn, his work influenced the art of [[Christian Strenge]]. He also appears to have been aware of the work made at [[Ephrata Cloister]]. Much of Alsdorff's work was made for the [[Mennonite]] community. It includes books of musical notation, religious texts, writing examples, [[bookplate]]s, and presentation pieces, all related in some fashion to educational endeavors.<ref name="Wertkin2004"></ref>
Five works attributed to Alsdorff, all originally from Earl Township, are in the collection of the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]].<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
[[Category:1838 deaths]]
[[Category:American male painters]]
[[Category:18th-century American painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American painters]]
[[Category:Fraktur artists]]
[[Category:People from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Painters from Pennsylvania]]
Nothing is known of Alsdorff's origins, and no record of his birth has been discovered. For many years he was a schoolmaster; his name appeared in a history of [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster County]], [[Pennsylvania]], years after his death. His earliest dated fraktur is a piece made for a student in [[Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Earl Township]] in that county in December 1791. Evidence shows that his career took him to [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery]] and [[Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Dauphin Counties]] as well as Lancaster County, and later in life to [[Mifflin County, Pennsylvania|Mifflin County]] as well. Stylistically his paintings indicate a familiarity with the work of [[Johann Adam Eyer]] and Johann Friedrich Eyer; in turn, his work influenced the art of [[Christian Strenge]]. He also appears to have been aware of the work made at [[Ephrata Cloister]]. Much of Alsdorff's work was made for the [[Mennonite]] community. It includes books of musical notation, religious texts, writing examples, [[bookplate]]s, and presentation pieces, all related in some fashion to educational endeavors.<ref name="Wertkin2004"></ref>
Five works attributed to Alsdorff, all originally from Earl Township, are in the collection of the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]].<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
[[Category:1838 deaths]]
[[Category:American male painters]]
[[Category:18th-century American painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American painters]]
[[Category:Fraktur artists]]
[[Category:People from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Painters from Pennsylvania]]
April 04, 2019 at 01:06PM
