Emanuel Spitzer
Emanuel Spitzer (Manó) (born October 30, 1844 in Pápa , Austrian Empire , † August 26, 1919 in Waging am See ) was an Austrian painter , caricaturist , illustrator and inventor .
Life
Emanuel Spitzer came to Vienna , where he attended school. In 1867 he settled in Paris , where he was influenced by Paul Gavarni and Honoré Daumier . In Paris he provided numerous illustrations for the magazine L'art pour tous . From 1869 he lived in Munich . From May 12, 1871, he studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm von Diez .
In the period from 1875 to 1880 he was a permanent employee of the Munich-based illustrated weekly “ Fliegende Blätter ”.
Emanuel Spitzer created genre pictures in the style of Carl Spitzweg , which also appeared in magazines, books for young people and albums.
Spitzer invented the "Spitzertypie" printing process around 1900 (patent 1901, additional patent 1905) and, together with Robert von Defregger, founded the Spitzertypie-Gesellschaft, based in Munich. Despite the good quality, his procedure could not prevail and was abandoned in 1909.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Spitzer, Emanuel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 186–188 ( digitized version ).
- Spitzer, Emanuel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 392-393 .
- E. Chrambach: Spitzer Emanuel (Manó). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 38 f. (Direct links on p. 38 , p. 39 ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spitzer, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Father |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1919 |
| Place of death | Waging by the lake |