Johann Friedrich Bause


Johann Friedrich Bause was a German engraver.

Life

Bause was born at Halle, in Saxony, in 1738. He is said to have been self-taught as an engraver, and to have formed his manner by an imitation of the prints of J. G. Wille. He died at Weimar in 1814.

Works

His works, which are very numerous, are chiefly executed with the graver, which he handled with great purity and firmness. The following are his principal plates, except his portraits, which are chiefly of German characters of little celebrity:
A list of his works may be found in Nagler and Heineken. See also Dr. G. Keil's ;'Katalog des Kupferstichwerkes von Johann Friedrich Bause'', Leipzig, 1849. His daughter, Juliane Wilhelmine Bause etched a number of landscapes after Kobell, Both, and other artists.