Portrait of Flinch, kept in the Royal Danish Library

Andreas Christian Ferdinand Flinch (3 February 1813 – 16 August 1872), a wood-engraver, was born at Copenhagen in 1813, and studied at the Academy there from 1832 to 1838. He had previously worked as a goldsmith, but he afterwards took to wood-engraving from self-tuition, and introduced a special method of his own into Denmark, consisting in drawing the outline upon the block and working out the details with a free hand. In 1840, he settled down as a lithographer, and published the popular Flinchs Almanak with woodcut illustrations. He died at Copenhagen in 1872.[1]

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Further reading

  • Kulturarv.dk: Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
  • Flinch, Andreas Christian Ferdinand (C. Nyrop), in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, vol. 5, p. 207, C.F. Bricka, Gyldendal (1887–1905)
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Flinch, Andreas Christian Ferdinand". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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