Franz Xaver Glötzle
Franz Xaver Glötzle (born March 8, 1816 in Kempten ; † May 31, 1884 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) was a German painter, lithographer and publisher. He was the founder of the Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt .
Life
Franz Xaver Glötzle was born out of wedlock to the weaver Anton Glötzle and the maid Catharina Geiß and was cared for by Julius Geiß, who earned his living as sacristan for the Gottesackerkapelle in Immenstadt, but also painted miniatures. Geiß had the boy trained as a barrel and porcelain painter; Franz Xaver Glötzle, who painted landscapes at a young age, was influenced by the local artist Nikolaus Drexel . After he married Johanna Margaretha Lettenmayer in 1841, his foster father left his house to him. Glötzle now also worked as a lithographer; Among other things, he also printed Drexel's paintings. In 1948 he created pictures for the Stations of the Cross on Kalvarienberg in Immenstadt; these were replaced in the 20th century.
Around the middle of the 19th century he got the idea of starting a newspaper. Together with the legal intern Franz Offner, he published the first edition of the weekly newspaper on April 2, 1859 for the district courts of Immenstadt and Sonthofen . The newspaper was lithographed from a handwritten template and consisted of four small pages. A few weeks after the first issue, this paper was received again: the production was too complex and the newspaper found too few buyers. Glötzle decided to approach his project more professionally and completed an apprenticeship in typesetting and printing at the Augsburg printing company Volkshart, which he completed as a master. On February 23, 1861 he began printing newspapers again, this time on a Stanhope hand printing press, after having received a license to publish a weekly newspaper from the Bavarian King on February 12 of the same year. This is how the Allgäuer announcement sheet began: in 1863, Glötzles organ became the official gazette for all community and foundation administrations in the district. In 1873 it was given the name Algäuer Anzeigeeblatt and two years later it was no longer published weekly, but daily.
Franz Xaver Glötzle continued to work as an artist. He created the illustrations for a report by Benno Raudhenegger on the flood and landslide catastrophe in 1873, which destroyed many buildings in Immenstadt and claimed many lives. They show, among other things, the conditions in the Steigbachtobel , the damming of the water at the railway bridge, the flooded market square and demolished buildings. From 1879 to 1882 he created numerous oil paintings of the ruins of the Allgäu. Glötzle's works can be found in the Hofmühle Museum in Immenstadt and in the Sonthofen home .
Franz Xaver Glötzle was buried in the cemetery in Immenstadt, his tomb has been preserved. His fourth son was the painter Ludwig Glötzle .
The Hofmühle Museum in Immenstadt presented a special exhibition on the life and work of Glötzle in 2009/10.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Franz Xaver Glötzle. Lithographer, painter, publisher on kultur-oa.de
- ↑ a b Gunther le Maire, An artist reports currently. From landscape painter to lithographer and founder of the Wochenblatt: Xaver Glötzle , in: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt 208, September 9, 2006, p. 42 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Glötzle, Franz Xaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, lithographer, printer and newspaper publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempten |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1884 |
| Place of death | Immenstadt in the Allgäu |