Franz Kreuzer (painter)

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Franz Kreuzer (born November 12, 1819 in Galgen near Mindelheim , † January 25, 1872 in Munich ) was a German xylographer and landscape painter .

Life

He received his training at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Clemens von Zimmermann , but at the age of 20 he joined that of Caspar Braun and Dr. von Dessauer founded a Xylographische Anstalt in Munich, later the Braun & Schneider publishing house . Except for brief interruptions, he remained loyal to the publisher as a “skilful, skilful and versatile artist” ( Hyacinth Holland ), but only because his emigration failed. Together with the magnetizer Schechner and the animal painter Robert Eberle, he went to America in 1849 , probably disappointed by the outcome of the revolution in 48 , where he first tried agricultural projects and later returned to working as a portrait painter and lithographer . It didn't help him. His expectations in America were so disappointed that Kreuzer happily returned to Munich in 1852 and also to his old employer, the publishing house.

With “exemplary understanding”, according to Holland, he used the wooden sticks for the images of numerous illustrated books such as B. Cotta's illustrated Bible with illustrations by Julius Schnorr and Eugen Neureuther or the magnificent edition of the Nibelungen Lied 1840–1843 (Cotta) or Wilhelm von Kaulbach's Reineke Fuchs .

Above all, Kreuzer worked for the magazine Fliegende Blätter and the well-known Münchener Bilderbogen . Along with Friederich von Exter, Dettendorfer and Johann Herburger, he was one of the best woodcutting artists at the Braun & Schneider publishing house.

In addition, he also cultivated landscape painting. During the summer break, Kreuzer regularly went to the Alps to study, after which he made small, finely colored oil paintings based on the model of Fritz Bamberger.

He also drew a cycle of views for the art publisher Ravizza in Munich, which were published there in copper engraving.

Kreuzer was like Fritz Bamberger and a number of other sociable painters also “master in singing”, whose “delicious bass voice will remain unforgettable for all listeners” wrote Hyacinth Holland in his necrology.

The Braun & Schneider studio lost two of its employees in January 1872, as Josef Wiesmair (* 1822), a friend of Kreuzer's, died on January 13 at the age of 49. The fatal thing was that Kreuzer caught such a bad cold at his funeral that he too died shortly afterwards. Kreuzer was married and had three children.

Works (painting)

  • Parthie near Oberaudorf (1863)
  • Berchtesgaden (1865)
  • From the Schönau (1866)
  • The Hechtsee (1868)
  • The Hintersee (1871)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Faber (Ed.): Conversations-Lexicon of the fine arts. Founded by Johann Andreas Romberg, Volume 3: Dobberan barrel. Renger'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1846, p. 599 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Necrologist - Josef Wiesmair and Franz Kreuzer †. In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. 7th year, 7th issue, Leipzig 1872, col. 236–237 ( [1] ).
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung. Munich, Supplement No. 35 of February 11, 1872, p. 529 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  4. ↑ Figure
personal data
SURNAME Kreuzer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German xylograph and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallows near Mindelheim
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1872
Place of death Munich