# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-amsler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:04.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-amsler"
name: "Samuel Amsler"
slug: "samuel-amsler"
description: "Samuel Amsler, a Swiss engraver, was born at Schinznach, in the canton of Aargau. He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips (1758–1817) and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and chiefly at Rome. In 1829, he succeeded his former master Hess as professor of engraving in the Munich academy. The works he designed and engraved are remarkable for the grace of the figures, and for the wonderful skill with which he retains and expresses the characteristics of the original paintings and statues. He was a passionate admirer of Raphael, and had great success in reproducing his works. Amsler's principal engravings are: The Triumphal March of Alexander the Great, and a full-length Christ, after the sculptures of Thorwaldsen and Dannecker; the Entombment of Christ, and two Madonnas after Raphael; and the Union between Religion and the Arts, after Overbeck, his last work, on which he spent six years.\nHis portrait album, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, includes a fine head of the poet Friedrich Rückert.(1) A family portrait of Amsler by Wilhelm von Kaulbach is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.(2)The portrait on the right is also by von Kaulbach (1833)."
tagline: "Swiss engraver (1791-1849)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamuelAmsler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1791-12-17"
deathDate: "1849-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             17.87671232876712
  historical:           5.670050666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Samuel Amsler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سامويل امسلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Amsler"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Amsler"
    title: "Samuel Amsler"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Amsler"
    title: "Samuel Amsler"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Амслер, Самуэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q479474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump