Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz

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Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz

Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz (born February 27, 1786 in Leipzig , † June 5, 1870 in Berlin ) was a German graphic artist (wood engraver), writer, theater critic, editor and art professor.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz, son of the typesetter Johann Christoph Gubitz (1754–1826), attended grammar school in Wittenberg from 1795 , at the age of eleven he had moved to Berlin. In 1801 he went to Jena to study theology. During this time he produced his first woodcut works, which he exhibited in Berlin and made a long-forgotten technique known again. In 1805 - at the age of 19 - he was appointed professor at the Berlin Art Academy .

There he taught the technique of woodcut. He made a contribution to the color woodcut and worked with this art method in Germany at a time of growing national awareness. He promoted graphic technology for photo editions (printing portraits), illustrations for books and magazines.

In his position he had important students, including Franz Theodor Kugler , Heinrich Rudolf Genée , Friedrich Unzelmann and Luise Beck . In Berlin he was also a publisher and publicist, in addition, his house was a social institution and meeting place for schoolchildren and artists.

Sigibert I's tomb in Soissons , woodcut by Gubitz (before 1815), printed in a book by the Germanist Zeune about the Nibelungenlied

Self-published he was the editor of the anthology Gaben der Milde (4 vols., 1817-1818), in which, among other things, contributions by Goethe and the story of the good Kasperl and the beautiful Annerl by Clemens Brentano were published. The sale was carried out by raffle, the proceeds were used to benefit the war wounded from the war of freedom .

In his magazine Der Gesellschafter he published poems by Heinrich Heine (1821) and other authors of his time. Gubitz also wrote for the Vossische Zeitung , for which he worked as a theater critic from 1823 until his death. His successor in this office was Theodor Fontane in the summer of 1870 .

Gubitz was married to Henriette Friederike Fleck and thus the son-in-law of the actor Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Fleck .

Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz died on Pentecost Sunday 1870 at the age of 84 in Berlin. He was buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtische and Friedrichswerder parishes on Chausseestrasse . The grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • Wood engravings, colored woodblock prints
  • "Hansel and Gretel" - own version of the fairy tale

A bibliography of his literary work can be found in Karl Goedeke .

Autobiographical

  • Adventures. For memories and records. 3 vols. Berlin, 1868–1869.

Stage works

  • The talent test. Comedy in one act. Berlin, 1813
  • Love and Reconciliation or The Battle of Leipzig. Play in one act. Berlin 1816. ( Carl Maria von Weber composed a musical introduction and set two songs to music)

editor

  • The partner or leaves for mind and heart . Berlin, 1817-1848.
  • Gifts of gentleness . 4 ribbons. Berlin, 1817-1818.
  • with Karl von Holtei : Yearbook of German stage plays. (Volume 11–45) Berlin, 1832–1866.
  • German people's calendar. Yearbook of the useful and entertaining . Berlin, 1835-1870.
  • Monthly for drama, theater, music . Berlin, 1846-1848.

Poetry

  • Poems. In two volumes. Berlin, 1860.

As gone by the storm,
As life passes;
As the day does not
linger , So happiness hurries;
As the evening falls,
As death beckons us.

Honor

Since June 1, 1910, a street in the Berlin district of Pankow , Prenzlauer Berg , has been named: Gubitzstrasse . It begins as a dead end on the Ringbahntrasse and runs over Grellstrasse and Ostseestrasse to Paul-Grasse-Strasse.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann August Zeune : Das Nibelungenlied. The original revised according to the best readings, and provided with an introductory text and a dictionary for use in schools . With a woodcut by Gubitz. Maurer, Berlin 1815 ( e-copy ).
  2. ↑ See Karl Goedeke: Grundrisz for the history of German poetry . Second completely revised edition, Vol. 9, Ehlermann, Dresden 1910, p. 442.
  3. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 266, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 98.
  5. ^ Karl Goedeke: Grundrisz for the history of German poetry . After the author's death, continued by Edmund Goetze in connection with specialist scholars. Second completely revised edition, Vol. 9., Ehlermann, Dresden 1910, pp. 435–447.
  6. ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: pp. 280 f.
  7. ↑ Aphorisms, quotations, poems, stories and peasant wisdom ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aphorismen.de
  8. ↑ Gubitzstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Gubitz, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, graphic artist, professor at the art academy
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1870
Place of death Berlin