Christian Alsdorff

Christian Alsdorff (died 1838) was an American Fraktur artist.

Nothing is known of Alsdorff's origins, and no autograph album of his birth has been discovered. For many years he was a schoolmaster; his say appeared in a chronicles of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, years after his death. His earliest archaic Fraktur is a fragment made for a student in Earl Township in that county in December 1791. Evidence shows that his career took him to Montgomery and Dauphin Counties as skillfully as Lancaster County, and progressive in moving picture to Mifflin County as well. Stylistically his paintings indicate a familiarity like the action of the brothers Johann Adam and Johann Friedrich Eyer; in turn, his deed influenced the art of Christian Strenge. He also appears to have been familiar of the con made at Ephrata Cloister. Much of Alsdorff's act out was made for the Mennonite community. It includes books of musical notation, religious texts, writing examples, bookplates, and presentation pieces, all similar in some fashion to bookish endeavors.

Five works credited to Alsdorff, all originally from Earl Township, are in the addition of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.