Anton Johann Gareis

Johann Anton Gareis (born March 29, 1793 in Kloster Freiheit , Upper Lusatia , † July 23, 1863 in Prague ) was a German painter , lithographer and etcher .

Life

Anton Gareis was the son of the trader and master carpenter Johann Gareis and his wife Johanne nee Fischer. He was the younger brother of the painter and draftsman Franz Gareis (1775-1803), Joseph Gareis (sculptor) (1778-1844), the chamber musician Gottlieb Gareis (1781-1859), the carpenter Johann Gareis (1785-1856) and the Bartholomäus Gareis (1789-1859). He received his training in 1811 at the art academy in Dresden , in Berlin and from 1818 in Neustadt / Upper Silesia . After this time he worked in Breslau for the painter, lithographer and publisher JD Gruson (Verlag JD Gruson u. Comp., Breslau).

During this time he created works based on the paintings in the gallery of Maria Magdalena ( 1821 ), a lithograph based on Raphael's Sistine Madonna and four mythological sheets of his own invention. The portrait of his brother Franz was redesigned for lithography . This sketch was made when Franz was in Paris from 1801 to 1803 . During his visit, Anton mainly drew young women with children and young girls. Between 1818 and 1820 these sheets were published by Bernard Gaillot under the title "Pensées de Gareis" on 56 plates.

In 1822 Anton went to the Art Academy in Prague , studied for a year and ultimately settled in Prague. Here he devoted himself to portrait painting, also as miniatures on ivory , designed other lithographs and gave drawing lessons in noble houses.

In addition, he created genre pictures, moralizing satires and caricatures, as one of the first painters in Prague he dedicated himself to folk scenes, which later also appeared in oil and watercolor.

His son Anton Gareis (1837–1922) also became a painter. He was the only descendant of his father's marriage to Albertine Friederike Louise Zimmermann, daughter of the engraver Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmermann from Breslau, whom he married in 1815 in the Ostritz district of Altstadt.

Works

1827: Countesses Bertha and Karoline von Nostitz
1828: Portrait of the painter Karl Svoboda at a young age
Portrait of Archduke Stephan (oil painting)
Self-portrait (oil painting)
Altarpieces: Saint Joseph for Zwettl-Lower Austria
smaller images of saints for private houses, for example a Madonna with the Christ child in front of a field of wheat

Lithographs from his time in Prague

13 sheets of historical scenes based on someone else's invention for the pictures from the history of Bohemia by Machek and Hanka (1820–1824)

according to old masters: English greeting , flight to Egypt and Christ on the cross

after Carlo Screta : Death of St. Joseph

after Francesco Trevisani : Madonna with the Christ child

after Andrea del Sarto : John the Baptist

after Annibale Carracci : Pietà

according to František Tkadlík : Christ child praying with two angels

after Joseph von Führich's drafts he etched 5 sheets of Gottfried August Bürger's "Wilder Jäger"

gallery

Anton Johann Gareis: Portrait of a Lady (around 1837)
Anton Johann Gareis: Man with Child on his Lap (before 1863)
Anton Johann Gareis: Declamator
Anton Johann Gareis: Narcis
Anton Johann Gareis: A thief with a church box

literature

Ulrich Thieme: General Lexicon of Visual Artists, Volume XIII. Leipzig 1920, pp. 188f.
Richard Förster: Franz Gareis. In: New Lusatian Magazine. 1913, No. 89, pp. 1-116.
Richard Förster: Franz Gareis. Special print, Görlitz 1913 p. 109 ff.
Nailer. Artist Lexicon V; XVI 185; XVIII 533; XIX 84, p. 418.
Weigel: Art Storage Catalog. Leipzig, 1838 — M l No 370.
FOX Jiřík: Romantická perioda Českého malířství. 1896 II pp. 322-324
Vyvoj malířství Českeho ve století. XIX, pp. 92, 135.
Catalog de l'exposition de portraits. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, IV 20 398.

Individual evidence

↑ New Lausanne Monthly 1803 pp. 248f
↑ Annales de la littérature et des arts 1821, p. 152f
^ Franz Gareis (1775–1803): Born to be a painter. Paintings, drawings and prints by a pioneer of German Romanticism; (Ed.) Friends of the City Collections for History and Culture Görlitz eV, Kai Wenzel, Marius Winzeler; Verlag Gunter Oettel 2004 ISBN 978-3932693816 , p. 14
^ Citizen's ballad Der wilde Jäger with 5 plates, drawn by Joseph Führich, etched by Anton Gareis. First reprint of the original edition along with the accompanying text by Anton Müller (1827). Parcus & Co., Munich 1919.

Web links

Commons : Anton Gareis - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Gareis, Anton Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gareis Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, genre painter, lithographer and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freedom of the monastery , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1863
Place of death	Prague

[1] New Lausanne Monthly 1803 pp. 248f

[2] Annales de la littérature et des arts 1821, p. 152f

[3] Franz Gareis (1775–1803): Born to be a painter. Paintings, drawings and prints by a pioneer of German Romanticism; (Ed.) Friends of the City Collections for History and Culture Görlitz eV, Kai Wenzel, Marius Winzeler; Verlag Gunter Oettel 2004 ISBN 978-3932693816 , p. 14

[4] Citizen's ballad Der wilde Jäger with 5 plates, drawn by Joseph Führich, etched by Anton Gareis. First reprint of the original edition along with the accompanying text by Anton Müller (1827). Parcus & Co., Munich 1919.