Fridolin Leiber

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The two ways , chromolithography around 1890
Guardian angel , one of Leiber's most famous pictures

Fridolin Leiber (born March 4, 1843 in Niedereschach , † April 4, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter .

Life

The clock painter Fridolin Leiber, born in the Black Forest in 1843 as the son of the farmer Thomas Leiber and his wife Helena, responded to an advertisement from the Frankfurt art publisher Eduard Gustav May in the trade journal Freie Künste . He then became head of the lithographic studio and thus the company's “house painter”. He held this position from 1882 to 1912.

Leiber's first works for Verlag EG May were typical depictions of saints . As a result, he processed motifs such as the ten " age levels" of humans, the seven levels of "different levels in human life", the "two ways" and representations of guardian money . Some of these motifs go back to older, partly medieval picture formulations, which were redrawn and "modernized" according to the ideas of the company management.

Leiber signed either with his full name or with his monogram “FL” . His pictures were widely used as wall art prints.

Fridolin Leiber died on April 4, 1912 at the age of 69 in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

  • Wolfgang Brückner : Petty bourgeois and affluent bourgeois wall decorations in the 20th century. In art and consumption - mass image research (= folklore as historical cultural studies 6; publications on folklore and cultural history 82). Pp. 407-444. Wuerzburg 2000.
  • Wolfgang Brückner, Christa Pieske : The picture factory. Documentation on the art and social history of industrial wall decoration production between 1845 and 1973 using the example of a large company. Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt 1973.
  • Wolfgang Brückner: Elfenreigen - wedding dream. The oil pressure production 1880–1940. M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0762-4 .

Web links

Commons : Fridolin Leiber  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freiburg State Archives, Best. L 10, No. 5445, Niedereschach, Kath. Gemeinde, Birth Book 1836–1869, p. 217, No. 8 ( online )
  2. ^ Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main, Best. STA 12/452, Standesamt II, Death Register 1912, p. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Leiber, Fridolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedereschach
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1912
Place of death Frankfurt am Main