Conrad Wießner

View of Rabenstein Castle (1834)

Conrad Wießner (also Conrad Wiessner, Konrad Wieszner, born June 1, 1796 in Nuremberg , † August 4, 1865 in Wallhalben , Pfalz (Bavaria) ) was a German painter, draftsman, etcher, engraver and stone draftsman.

Born as the son of the baker and innkeeper Johann Burkhard Wießner, he married Anna Katharina Höß in 1824. The couple had two sons and three daughters.

Wießner studied in Nuremberg at the art school and privately with Ambrosius Gabler , then at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . He went on study trips to Vienna, Styria, Tyrol and Switzerland. In 1818 he was a co-founder of the Albrecht Dürer Association in Nuremberg, in 1822 he became a member of the Association of Artists and Art Friends in Nuremberg, both associations merged in 1830.

In 1826 he went to the Regensburg Porcelain Manufactory to found a porcelain painting department , and in 1827 he returned to Nuremberg, where he set up a glass painting workshop. Since 1828 he worked as a drawing teacher at Nuremberg schools. In 1833 he was appointed a teacher at the Royal District Agricultural and Trade School. In 1843 he went to Oberstein in the Principality of Birkenfeld , where he co-founded a trade school. Afterwards he taught at the higher educational institution in Birkenfeld . In 1862 he retired, which he spent in Wallhalben near Zweibrücken .

Conrad Wießner was mainly concerned with landscape painting. His pictures served as templates for lithographs and steel engravings, which he executed with his son Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Wießner and published in his own publishing house.

Publications

• Album of the Nahethales. Voigtländer, Kreuznach [1862] ( digitized version ).

literature

• Friedrich Wiessner: Conrad Wiessner . In: Archives for the arts of drawing with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history 15, 1869, pp. 223-231 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wießner, Conrad . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 56th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1888, p. 88 ( digitized version ).
• Fritz Traugott Schulz : Wießner, Conrad . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 544-546 .
• The picturesque and romantic Nahe valley drawn from nature by Conrad Wießner. Association for local history in the Birkenfeld district, Birkenfeld 1965.
• Wießner, Conrad. In: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons. Volume 3, Saur, Munich 2007, p. 1671 ( books.google.pl ).

Web links

Commons : Conrad Wießner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Conrad Wießner at the RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis