Dionis moated castle

Dionis Wasserburg (completely Johann Dionysius Bernhard Wasserburg ) (born October 25, 1813 in Mainz , † June 16, 1885 ibid) was a German lithographer .

Life

Dionis Wasserburg was the son of Andreas Wasserburg (1775-1853) and his wife Dorothea geb. Bornemann, one of his brothers was Philipp Wasserburg (1827-1897). He learned the lithograph trade in Mainz and went to Switzerland in autumn 1835 , where he became a member of the local club of the political craftsmen's organization Young Germany of Vormärz in Neuchâtel . In July 1836 he was deported to France and transferred to London . There he married Sarah Louise Scheurer (born January 24, 1819 in London) in 1837, the daughter of a German cake baker. He returned to Mainz in 1837, where he opened a lithographic company in 1838 and ran it until his death. He changed apartments several times. He was buried in the main cemetery in Mainz .

Plate 3 The Aureus Chapel

Historical and architectural curiosities of Mainz

His main work is the work Historical and Architectural Curiosities of Mainz in Its Past and Present, published in the lithograph by D. Wasserburg in 35 deliveries , Mainz 1842.

The 35 large-format panels are based on older models and mostly show buildings that were destroyed or demolished during the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic rule. Some lithographs were done by other lithographers who worked for Wasserburg: Pet. Calvi, JC Meyer, I. Nawratil. and H. Sturn

Complete copies of the work are extremely rare, as the views are usually sold individually in the art trade.

Panel

Title page and register Panel I: The department store on the so-called fire Plate II: The ruins of the Church of Our Lady Plate III: The Aureus Chapel Plate IV: The Dompropstei Plate V: St. Stephen's Church Plate VI: The Sebastian Church Plate VII: The St. Agneten Monastery Plate VIII: The Grand Ducal Hessian Palace of Justice Plate IX: The Dahlheim Monastery Plate X: The Martinsburg Plate XI: The acorn stone Plate XII: The Favorite Palace Plate XIII: The Charterhouse Plate XIV: The "Mainzer Carrosch" Plate XV: The Fontaine Thetis in a grotto in the garden of the Favorite summer residence Plate XVI: The cathedral from the Rhine side Plate XVII: The castle chapel or the St. Gangolfts collegiate church

Plate XVIII: The orangery and the water-rich cascade in the garden of the Favorite pleasure palace Plate XIX: The theater Plate XX: View of the cathedral in 1767 Plate XXI: The Holy Cross Church Blackboard. XXII: The portal of the Franciscan Church Plate XXIII: The fish tower Plate XXIV: The Weißefrauenkirche Plate XXV: The fountain of Pluton and Proserpine in the garden of the Favorite pleasure palace Plate XXVI: The old castle Plate XXVII: The Jakobsberg Monastery Plate XXVIII: The Knights' Monastery of St. Alban Plate XXIX: The wooden tower Plate XXX: Prospectus of a grotto in the garden of the Favorite pleasure palace Plate XXXI: The former St. Peterskirche Plate XXXII: The dining room of the Favorite pleasure palace Plate XXXIII: The Roman aqueduct Plate XXXIV: The Hagenmünster Church Plate XXXV: The St. Peter Gate

Further lithographs

• 1848: The Mainz vigilante group of March 1848 with their commandant Franz Zitz and his adjutant Germain Metternich on horseback.
• 1848 caricature Bishop Ketteler preaching in Mainz Cathedral (attribution).
• 1853: Route map of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn from Mainz to Worms and the planned route from Worms to Ludwigshafen
• around 1857/58: Explosion of the powder tower in 1857
• Map of Mainz and the Rheingau with views of important buildings in Mainz

literature

• Wilhelm Diepenbach : Wasserburg, Dionysius . 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. 175 .
• Rainer Wahl: The Wasserburg family (I). Four generations of Mainz city history in individual biographies. In: Mainz. Quarterly issues for culture, politics, economics, history. Volume 2, Issue 3, 1982, pp. 126–135, here pp. 131–133.
• Heike Kornfeld: The development of the printing industry in Mainz from the beginning of the 19th century to the outbreak of the First World War (= contributions to the history of the city of Mainz . Volume 31). Mainz City Archives , Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-924708-22-3 , pp. 35–36, 48–49, 327.

Web links

Commons : Panels from Historical and Architectural Curiosities of Mainz  - Collection of Images

• Entry on Dionis Wasserburg in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Remarks

1. ↑ 1842 Hintere Praesencegasse 342; 1845 Weihergarten 13; 1853 Emmeransstrasse 13; 1870 Grosse Langgasse 9; 1880 Köthergäßchen 6.
2. ^ Reprint Verlag Gerd Mertin, Königswinter 1985, ed. by Klaus Wasserburg.
3. ↑ sheet size approx. 30 × 37 cm; Image size approx. 18.7 × 23.3 cm.
4. ↑ Signed panels VIII – IX.
5. ↑ Signed panel II.
6. ↑ Signed the title page.
7. ↑ Signed panels XV – XX.
8. ^ A complete copy is in the Mainz City Library, signature Mog: 2º / 51, another in the Mainz University Library, signature 2º G 6230.
9. ↑ Flag car of the Mainz troops from the battle of Göllheim in 1298, present in the Mainz armory until it was destroyed in 1793. The lithograph was based on a drawing by Franz Joseph Bodmann , today in the Mainz City Archives BPS IVa 1, see. Wilhelm Janssen , Hugo Stehkämper (ed.): The day near Worringen, June 5, 1288 . Böhlau, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-412-04388-5 , p. 200 Fig. 5.
10. ↑ Wahl 1982, illus. P. 135.
11. ↑ Wahl 1982, ill. P. 132.