Franz Sales Meyer

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Birthplace in Kenzingen

Franz Sales Meyer (born December 9, 1849 in Kenzingen im Breisgau ; † November 6, 1927 in Karlsruhe ) was a German book author, poet, painter and professor of ornamentation .

Life

Franz Sales Meyer was born in 1849 at Eisenbahnstrasse 8 in Kenzing. From 1866 to 1868 he attended the teachers' college in Meersburg . He then moved to the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , where he completed his training as a trade teacher in 1871. In 1873 he became a teacher at the grand ducal arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe , where he was appointed professor in 1878 .

In 1871, on the occasion of the end of the Franco-Prussian War in Kenzingen , he staged a fireworks display that was widely admired . In 1884 he wrote the first Meersburg city ​​guide and, with the support of the Meersburg Beautification Association , Karl Hoffackers and Hans Thomas , produced a memorandum to improve the Meersburg cityscape in 1907 . In 1911 he drew up a planting plan for the Meersburg cemetery . Because of his more than 50 years of attachment to the place, he received honorary citizenship in 1915 . Franz Sales Meyer died in Karlsruhe in 1927.

Awards

  • 1915: Honorary citizenship of the city of Meersburg
  • 1915: Honorary citizenship of the city of Kenzingen

Works (selection)

  • Handbook of the Amateurs' Arts for use by all who believe they will benefit from it. Seemann, Leipzig 1890. Reprint: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1983.
  • Blacksmithing Handbook: For use by locksmiths and blacksmiths. Seemann, Leipzig 1893.
  • Fireworks as a hobby's art. Seemann, Leipzig 1898.
  • The capital and residence city of Karlsruhe, a guide for their guests. 3rd and 4th thousand self-published by the city, Karlsruhe 1898.
  • Ornamental form theory. A compilation of the most important things in the field of ornamentation. For use by schools, draftsmen, architects and traders. Grand Ducal Badische Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe. Seemann, Leipzig 1883.
  • Systematically arranged handbook of ornamentation: For use by pattern makers, architects, schools and tradespeople as well as for studies in general. Seemann's art handbooks vol. 1. Seemann, Leipzig 1888.
    • Handbook of ornamentation. 12th edition. Seemann, Leipzig 1927. Reprint: Seemann, Leipzig 1986.
    • English: Handbook of ornament. A grammar of art industrial and architectural designing in all its branches for practical as well as theoretical use. Dover, New York 1957.
  • Jaennicke's Handbook of Watercolor Painting. Revised by Franz Sales Meyer. 9th edition, P. Neff, Eßlingen am Neckar 1923.
  • Manual of perspective in 100 paragraphs with 203 illustrations. With a geometric preschool and an appendix on axonometry. P. Neff, Eßlingen am Neckar 1922.
  • with Eugen Bischoff (ed.): The festive decoration in words and pictures. Seemann, Leipzig 1897.

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Sales Meyer  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Franz Sales Meyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cemetery and cemetery chapel. Today's cemetery chapel, which actually wasn't. In: Museumsverein Meersburg (ed.): Meersburg traces. Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86136-124-4 , pp. 94-100.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Franz Sales
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book author, poet, painter and university lecturer (ornamentation)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenzingen , Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1927
Place of death Karlsruhe