Albert Christoph Reindel

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Albert Christoph Reindel (born July 23, 1784 in Nuremberg ; † February 23, 1853 there ) was a German engraver , draftsman , professor , restorer , conservator and translator .

Importance of the reproduction engraver

So (left) only visitors to the Neue Pinakothek saw Ludwig I of Bavaria ... while the educated citizens were now able to “get an idea” everywhere thanks to the engraving from Reindel to Stieler. So (left) only visitors to the Neue Pinakothek saw Ludwig I of Bavaria ... while the educated citizens were now able to “get an idea” everywhere thanks to the engraving from Reindel to Stieler.
Sun (left) saw only visitors to the Neue Pinakothek on site Ludwig I of Bavaria ... while the educated classes by the bite of Reindel by Stieler now "take a picture" everywhere could.

The importance of across borders honored professor and director of the early 19th century, the former Nuremberg art school completely reorganized to the then much-visited Nuremberg Academy , located especially in the spread through his numerous pupils reproduction - Illustrations for the emerging educated middle class at the beginning of the industrial age before photographic and other processes were invented and available in sufficient quantities.

Life

Albert Reindel should be based on the initial request of his father Kaufmann be, but showed it involve any inclinations . For this reason, his father initially let him teach with the director of the Nuremberg drawing school , director Gustav Philipp Zwinger , and at the young age of fourteen he was apprenticed to the engraver Heinrich Guttenberg in 1798 , where Reindel made his first red chalk drawings . 1803 Guttenberg went with his students in the Paris of Napoleon time where Reindel worked until 1809 Guttenberg's instructions.

In Paris Albert Reindel was introduced to the study of anatomy through salvage , while in the French capital he was influenced by the contact with two of his compatriots, the engraver Friedrich Geißler and the Stuttgart painter Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (the son of Johann Gotthard Müller ), as well as by the French engraver Desnoyers .

Nuremberg from 1811

In 1811 Reindel went back to his hometown Nuremberg, where he was appointed director of the painting academy founded in 1662 at his former training center, which was very neglected at the time . Reindel completely reorganized it, converted it into an art school in 1819 and taught life drawing there, among other things .

In Nuremberg, after years of making numerous engravings, including cover engravings for the women's pocket book, Reindel created a colored representation of the “ beautiful fountain ” on the market square in Nuremberg. He was then entrusted with the restoration of the fountain, which he carried out from 1821 to 1824 with the help of C. Heideloff , the sculptors Ernst von Bandel , Burgschmiet and Rotermundt . For this Albert Reindel was awarded the " Medal of the Bavarian Order of Civil Merit ". The two portraits that exist of Reindel were also produced during this period: In 1824 Johann Dietrich Carl Kreul (1803–1867) painted a portrait of Reindel in oil. In 1825 Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein came to Nuremberg to draw Reindel for his collection of "Portraits of Well-Known Contemporaries".

The honored man now also received commissions outside of his actual profession: He restored St. Michael's Church , for which he also designed the pulpit and altar, as well as the synagogue in Fürth .

Reindel designed the marble macaw and directed the execution of the bronze-decorated marble tablet, which the Imperial Austrian Secret Council Carneo Steffaneo in memory of Burgrave Friedrich III. in the church of the Heilsbronn monastery near Nuremberg.

Reindel, who headed the (later) Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg until his death , was parallel to this curator of the city ​​and royal picture gallery of Nuremberg, belonged to the council of municipal representatives for 18 years , became an honorary member of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlin Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was even "active in the literary field, translating Thibaut's " Perspective linéaire "published by Chapuis in 1834. "

Known students

Works (selection)

Youth until 1803

  • around 1800: Red chalk drawings from Heinrich Guttenberg's apprenticeship

Paris period 1803/11

  • Illustrations for Visconti's "Iconographie": three busts of Euripides, three of Sophocles and one of Miltiades (which Guttenberg completed)
  • Engraving of the Romanian King Parthamasiris and the head of the Iberian King Oussak
  • Sheets for the “Musée français” published by Laurent and Robillard , as well as for the “Musée Napoléon”, for which he engraved Annibale Caracci's painting in the Louvre “Madonna with the Sleeping Christ Child and Little John”
  • 1804: Portrait of the Nuremberg merchant JC Kießling
  • Engravings after Manfredi , Nic. Poussin , Poilly , Bartolozzi and Fr. Kobell

Nuremberg from 1811
prints

  • Title copper after Lafitte , Zwinger , Näcke and others for various books
      • for the women's paperback :
    • 1815–1817, 1823 and 1827: title copper , some with title borders
  • 1821: Large overall view of Vischer's tomb for Sebaldus of Nuremberg
  • 1829, then with richly decorated edging. 1834: Ludwig I in coronation regalia after Joseph Karl Stieler , "as a counterpart to the portrait of King Maximilian I engraved by C. Heß "
  • Portrait of Reindel's teacher Hermann Guttenberg

drawings

Fonts

Artist signature

Reindel provided his work sometimes with different monograms , differently composed of the decorated letters A and R .

literature

Web links

Commons : Albert Reindel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Paul Johannes Rée:  Reindel, Albert Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 11-13.
  2. ^ Paul Johannes Rée: Reindel, Albert Christoph. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. 28, 1889, pp. 11-13. At Deutsche-Biographie.de, accessed on November 22, 2019.
  3. ^ GK Nagler: Reindel, Albert. In: New general artist lexicon. Volume 12: Poyet, Bernard - Renesse, Daniel. Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1842. From Books.Google.fr, accessed on November 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ Authority record of the common authority file
  5. ↑ Published in the exhibition catalog of the city of Nuremberg: 1662-1806 The early days of the Nuremberg Art Academy. See bibliography. The original is in the art collections of Nuremberg's museums.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Vorwerk , Item No. 10, Part 1, p. 101. The original is in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
  7. ↑ Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Geißler, Peter Carl , in: The Christmas crib / Hirten, Drei / Könige, Sternsingen / A documentation for Christmas 2011 , on: Goethezeitportal .de
  8. ↑ Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Egmont. A tragedy / text and picture documents
  9. ^ Fleischmann, Andreas (Johann Andr.) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 87 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - "Was brought by his father to the art school in Nürnber run by Reindl; was a student of Ph. Walther").
  10. ↑ Authority record of the common authority file
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Vorwerk : Peter Conrad Schreiber, a landscape painter from Fürth in the 19th century. Part 1. In: Fürth history sheets. 4/2015, pp. 99-122; Part 2. In: Fürth history sheets. 1/2016, pp. 3–29.
  12. ^ A b Georg Kaspar Nagler: Albert Christoph Reindel. In: The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools who use a figurative sign, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same to designate their works, & c. have served. Volume I, 1858, pp. 504-505 et al. ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Reindel, Albert Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, draftsman, professor, restorer, conservator and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1853
Place of death Nuremberg