Carl Grote (Illustrator)

Carl Grote (born March 29, 1839 in Bründeln ( Peine district ), † June 28, 1907 in Hanover ) was a German journalist , draftsman , illustrator , wood engraver , painter and lithographer .

Life

" Hannover from the bird's eye view [instead of a city map ]. After a photo by C. Grote drawn by K. Winkler ”;
Wood engraving from the Illustrirten Zeitung for the 4th German Federal Shooting, 1872

The Stephansstift before Hanover;
Lithograph by Grote, around 1902

Senior Bödeker as "Reichsfechtmeister" , based
on a drawing by Grote in: Die Gartenlaube , 1873

Trained in Munich and Stuttgart , Grote a. a. in Hanover and illustrated daily journalistic events from town and country.

Grote specialized in bird charts , which were then used by wood , copper and steel engravers as a template for often large-format illustrations such as the Illustrirte Zeitung or Die Gartenlaube . Often the illustrations ( engraved by ... based on a drawing by C. Grote ) were then separated from the magazines and colored in different colors by specialized colorists .

Works (selection)

In the Historical Museum at the Hohen Ufer some of the following works can be seen:

Theater on the Marieninsel in Hanover (painting)
The Tivoli in Hanover (color lithograph, 1868)
Hannover from the bird's eye view (appeared as a large-format, double-sided wood engraving (34.5 cm × 49.5 cm), "drawn by R. Winkler", on July 13, 1872 in the Illustrirten Zeitung ( Leipzig ) on the occasion of the 4th German Federal Shooting in Hanover)
The new Technical University in Hanover (wood engraving 1879)
Hanover 1901 (colored lithograph, bird chart, 1901, 77.5 cm × 128.2 cm; printed by the Orell Füssli Artistic Institute (Zurich))

In addition, bird charts are e.g. B. known from Darmstadt and Mannheim .

literature

Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath : Old Hanover. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. 4th improved edition. Heinrich Feesche, Hanover 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7
Mechthild Wiswe : Peine. Personalities of the homeland , Hanover: Madsack, 1974, p. 61ff.
Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 229

Web links

Commons : Carl Grote - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ In Alt-Hannover (see literature), p. 140, Brüdeln (Kr. Peine) is given.

personal data
SURNAME	Grote, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grote, C; Grote, C .; Grote, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, draftsman, illustrator, wood engraver, painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Curl
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 1907
Place of death	Hanover

[1] In Alt-Hannover (see literature), p. 140, Brüdeln (Kr. Peine) is given.