August Gaber
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.
Female saints after Ludwig Seitz
Jacob and Rahel after Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Death register StA Berlin IVa, No. 491/1894
- ↑ saebi.isgv.de . In: isgv.de .
- ↑ The Goethezeitportal: The kiss . In: goethezeitportal.de .
- ↑ Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900 . de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-095137-0 (e-book)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Episode "What brings the messenger woman": Title page "What does the messenger woman bring" . In: bildindex.de .
- ^ The Housewife - The Art Institute of Chicago . In: artic.edu .
- ^ Worcester Art Museum - Horrors of War . In: worcesterart.org .
- ^ Inventory of the German Order Museum Bad Mergentheim, Inv. No. 1416, exhibited in the exhibition "Message in Pictures" 2016
- ^ Digitized in the Bavarian State Library
- ^ 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 | |
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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 |