Carl Friedrich
Kaeppel

Painter, topographical draftsman, copperplate engraver, son of Christoph Simon Andreas, pastor. Student at the art school under Albert Christoph Reindel and student of Friederich Geißler. He created numerous watercolors and drawings with views of Nuremberg and Franconian Switzerland. Some of his works served as templates for lithographs, including for Theodor Rothbart. He became terminally ill in the 1840s and was in a sanatorium and nursing home in Erlangen from 1850 onwards, where he died in mental derangement after decades of illness. Kaeppelstrasse in Schoppershof was named after him. MuS: MUNICH, BStGs. NUREMBERG, GNM; –, MStN: Drawings. Lit.: Thieme-Becker; Brix, 1981, p. 111; Sitzmann, 1983, p. 275. Exhibit.: 1830/1; 1906/2; 1941/2; 1942/1; 1953/10, No. 54, 68, 69; 1955/4; 1956/4; 1957/18; 1965/24; 1966/4; 1969/14; 1972/5 No. 33, 35, 66, 76-81, 90, 92, 93, 99, 100; 1977/1; 1991/1. quoted from the Nuremberg Artists' Lexicon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb