# Rudolf Stang

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**Rudolf Stang** (26 November 1831, [Düsseldorf](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorf) - 2 January 1927, [Boppard](/source/Boppard)), was a German engraver and etcher associated with the [Düsseldorfer Malerschule](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorfer_Malerschule).

## Life and work

He was the son of Jakob Stang, a former teacher who became a winemaker and bar owner, and his wife, Franziska née Denz. The bar, "Zum Drachenfels", was a meeting place for the local artistic community, including the composer brothers, [Friedrich](/source/Johann_Friedrich_Franz_Burgm%C3%BCller) and [Norbert Burgmüller](/source/Norbert_Burgm%C3%BCller), and the poets, [Christian Dietrich Grabbe](/source/Christian_Dietrich_Grabbe) and [Karl Immermann](/source/Karl_Immermann).[1] His father died when he was only nine. After renting rooms in their home for six years, his mother was forced to sell it at an auction.[2]

He was initially trained to be a [stonemason](/source/Stonemason) but, in 1845, began attending the [Kunstakademie Düsseldorf](/source/Kunstakademie_D%C3%BCsseldorf), where his primary instructor was the [copper engraver](/source/Copper_engraver), [Joseph von Keller](/source/Joseph_von_Keller). After two years, he began making plates for small [andachtsbilder](/source/Andachtsbilder) (devotional images), on behalf of the [Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images](/source/Verein_zur_Verbreitung_religi%C3%B6ser_Bilder). His first full engraving of his own was one of the [Annunciation](/source/Annunciation), based on a work by [Ernst Deger](/source/Ernst_Deger), at [Stolzenfels Castle](/source/Stolzenfels_Castle). He graduated from the Kunstakademie in 1857.

Shortly after, he became a member of the progressive artists' association, [Malkasten](/source/Malkasten), and began taking private students; notably [Andreas Pickel](/source/Andreas_Pickel). Through his sister, Maria, he became the brother-in-law of the engraver [Nikolaus Barthelmess](/source/Nikolaus_Barthelmess) and the uncle of [Rudolf Barthelmess](/source/Rudolf_Barthelmess), who would later be a portrait painter.

From 1865 to 1874, he made several trips to Italy. The academies in Berlin, Munich, and Brussels named him a member, for his engraving, "[The Marriage of the Virgin](/source/The_Marriage_of_the_Virgin_(Raphael))", after a work by [Raphael](/source/Raphael), which he made following a visit to Milan in 1873. The following year, he did an engraving of "[The Last Supper](/source/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo))", by [Leonardo da Vinci](/source/Leonardo_da_Vinci).

In 1881, he was appointed Professor of copper engraving at the [Rijksakademie](/source/Rijksakademie) in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam). His best-known students there included [Hendrik Maarten Krabbé](/source/Hendrik_Maarten_Krabb%C3%A9), [Thérèse Schwartze](/source/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Schwartze) and [Willem Witsen](/source/Willem_Witsen). In 1898 and 1899, he designed two stamps for [PTT Nederland](/source/PTT_Nederland) (the Dutch post office), one of which was in honor of young Queen [Wilhelmina](/source/Wilhelmina_of_the_Netherlands), who had recently come of age to rule independently.[3] He retired in 1901 and went to live in Boppard, where he became a painter, as his eyes had weakened too much to do engraving. He died there in 1927, aged ninety-five.

## References

1. Hans Stöcker: *Düsseldorf in alten Ansichten*. Verlag Europäische Bibliothek, Zaltbommel 1990, ISBN 978-90-288-2665-6, Vol.1, pg.9

1. *Amtsblatt für den Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf für das Jahr 1846. Oeffentlicher Anzeiger*. Ausgabe Nr. 55 vom 23. Juni 1846, Ziffer 464 (784. Immobilienverkauf), [Digitalisat](http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/5994456?query=Rudolph%20Stang)

1. ["Stang, Rudolf"](http://stampengravers.blogspot.de/2014/01/stang-r.html) @ Stampengravers

## Further reading

- ["Stang, Rudolf"](http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=67205). In: Hermann Alexander Müller: *Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon*. Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig 1882, pg.502
- Georg Galland: "Der Kupferstecher Rudolf Stang". In: *Die Graphischen Künste*. Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst, Vol.VI, 1888, pg.21 ([Online](http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/gk1888/0185?sid=03a8889f3a572641552d69f8baa23858))
- ["Stang, Rudolf"](http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Stang). In: *Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon*. Vol.18, Leipzig 1909, pg.847
- "Stang, Rudolf". In: Pieter A. Scheen: *Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750–1880*. self-published, 1981, pg.493

## External links

- [Entry on Rudolf Stang](http://www.artindex.nl/noordholland/default.asp?id=6&num=0079900903009030093100137009810970501711) @ ARTindex Lexicon

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