August Gaber

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Johann Carl August Gaber (born November 14, 1823 in Köppernig , Neisse district , † September 6, 1894 in Berlin ) was a German wood cutter .

Life and family

August Gaber was trained by Hugo Bürkner and later worked for Ludwig Richter . He valued August Gaber, who created many woodcuts for his illustrated works, as his best woodcutter. In 1852 Gaber married Richter's daughter Aimée (* 1834; † 1863), whom he had trained. His son Carl Albert Joseph Gaber, who was born in Stuttgart in 1866 , also became a wood cutter.

Publicly owned works

The engraving What brings the messenger woman from 1850, based on a template by Richter, is in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . In the Art Institute of Chicago there is a print of the woodcut Die Hausfrau, created in 1857, after a work by Richter. The Worcester Art Museum showed a picture of Gabe on the subject of death in 2006 as part of the exhibition "Horrors of War". In the Teutonic Order Museum in Bad Mergentheim there is a large-format woodcut in Dürer's style with the crucifixion of Christ, including Maria and Johannes, from 1859.

Multi-edition illustrations

The book Die Kinderstube by Oskar Pletsch with woodcuts by Gaber achieved numerous editions. The Seven Sacraments by Joh. Friedr. Overbeck , based on the woodcut cartons by August Gaber , was published in Dresden in 1865 and in Leipzig in 1870 and 1889.

Web links

Commons : August Gaber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Death register StA Berlin IVa, No. 491/1894
  2. ↑ saebi.isgv.de . In: isgv.de .
  3. ↑ The Goethezeitportal: The kiss . In: goethezeitportal.de .
  4. ↑ Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900 . de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-095137-0 (e-book)
  5. ↑ artoftheprint.com - If all the dates of the individual sources are correct, Carl Albert Joseph Gaber could not be a grandson of Ludwig Richter, but would have to come from another mother.
  6. ↑ Episode "What brings the messenger woman": Title page "What does the messenger woman bring" . In: bildindex.de .
  7. ^ The Housewife - The Art Institute of Chicago . In: artic.edu .
  8. ^ Worcester Art Museum - Horrors of War . In: worcesterart.org .
  9. ^ Inventory of the German Order Museum Bad Mergentheim, Inv. No. 1416, exhibited in the exhibition "Message in Pictures" 2016
  10. ^ Digitized in the Bavarian State Library
  11. ^ Wilhelm Schlink : Salvation history in the painting of the Nazarenes in: Aurora. Yearbook of the Eichendorff Society for the Classical-Romantic Era 61 , 2001, pp. 97–118, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Gaber, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaber, Johann Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Köppernig , Neisse district
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1894
Place of death Berlin