Friedrich Jügel

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Johann Friedrich Jügel (born July 22, 1772 in Remagen , Duchy of Jülich , † 1833 in Berlin ) was a German engraver , graphic artist and illustrator . From 1823 he taught as a professor of copperplate engraving at the Prussian Academy of Arts .

Life

Jügel was the third child of the chemist and calico manufacturer Johann Friedrich Jügel and his wife, the school daughter Anna Maria Wilhelmina Kirberger (1738-1808), born in Remagen on the Rhine . The couple, who married in 1767, had a total of nine children, six daughters and three sons. They include the landscape and portrait painter Henriette Jügel and the bookseller Carl Christian Jügel, as well as the daughters Christiane and Louisa, who, as society ladies of the Queen of Prussia, contributed to the musical entertainment of the court with their harp playing. In the musical atmosphere of the Jügelschen house, it was customary to make music, paint, draw, design knitting patterns and do handicrafts. The engraver and graphic artist Daniel Chodowiecki was one of the people who went in and out there . Little is known about Jügel's father: the teat manufacturer , merchant and chemist, who allegedly came from Hamburg , set up dye works in Bendorf near Neuwied . In Vallendar , Remagen and Düren he tried his hand at shops in the regional textile industry before moving to Berlin with his family in the 1780s. There his 14-year-old son of the same name began studying on February 1, 1787 at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, where Chodowiecki worked as a teacher and rector and Daniel Berger taught copperplate engraving. Under King Friedrich Wilhelm II. And Minister Friedrich Anton von Heynitz , this educational institution - also with a view to its importance for the Berlin publishing and printing industry - turned to the care of engraving.

At the age of 19, Jügel created the death scene of the British General James Wolfe, based on a copper engraving that the graphic artist William Woollett (1735–1785) had made after the painting by Benjamin West from 1770 . It was probably this copper engraving by Jügels that Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm awarded a silver medal on the occasion of an academy exhibition. In the following year, 1794, his lifelike portrait of the Baltic poet Elisa von der Recke was created in dotted style . During the restoration period, Jügel worked as a reproduction artist with a large number of Berlin artists, such as Gottfried Schadow , Heinrich Anton Dähling , Ludwig Wolf and Friedrich Lieder . In addition to court festivities and theater events, his pen mainly recorded patriotic and military scenes and the uniforms of the civil guards and the Prussian army, as well as portraits, topographical views and architectural depictions, e.g. in aquatint a large view of the Berlin theater by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The virtuoso handling of the aquatint etching technique , which requires the knowledgeable use of the etching acid, gave him the nickname aquatint magician Jügel, which is perhaps also ironically meant, among his Berlin colleagues . From 1823 Jügel taught copperplate engraving at the Prussian Academy of the Arts. A portrait drawing made in the years 1825/1826 by Gottfried Schadow, which shows Jügel at a men's party for the Berlin Artists' Association , is the last datable testimony to the life of Jügel.

Works (selection)

Doctor Balnardus and Pandolfo in the Opera Buffa “Der Tollkopf” , book illustration based on a copy by Heinrich Anton Dähling, around 1805
  • Death scene of General James Wolfe, reproduction after an engraving by William Woollett and a painting by Benjamin West, 1791
  • Portrait of the poet Elisa von der Recke, 1794
  • Doctor Balnardus and Pandolfo in the Opera Buffa “Der Tollkopf” , book illustration based on a copy by Heinrich Anton Dähling, around 1805
  • Parade of the French guards before Napoleon in the Lustgarten in Berlin 1806 , copper engraving
  • Transfiguration of Queen Luise of Prussia , around 1810
  • Depictions of uniforms, around 1810
  • Friedrich Wilhelm III. visits the hospital of the wounded warriors in Bautzen , aquatint etching based on a template by Ludwig Wolf
  • Victorious entry of the high allies , reproduction based on a template by Ludwig Wolf, around 1815
  • Glorification of the Prussian Nation , art paper with the allegorical depiction of Frederick II of Prussia in a patriotic scene honoring the heroes of the Wars of Liberation, 1815
  • Hall with a view of the city of Reims (stage design for Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans , 4th act, 1st scene, in the Berliner Schauspielhaus), colored aquatint based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1818
  • Train to the Reichstagspallaste in Worms , colored etching based on a template by Heinrich Anton Dähling, around 1820
  • View of the Schauspielhaus Berlin, Aquatina etching based on a template by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  • View of the castle bridge, museum, cathedral and castle in Berlin, colored etching based on a template by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  • Six diplomas for the Berlin Artists' Association, aquatint etchings based on a design by Gottfried Schadow, 1822 and 1825
  • Panorama of the free city of Frankfurt am Main , aquatint after a drawing by Friedrich Joseph Fähant , around 1830

literature

  • Heinrich Appel: Friedrich Jügel, professor of copperplate engraving in Berlin (1772–1833) . In: Kreis Ahrweiler (Hrsg.): Heimatjahrbuch 1972 , Ahrweiler, p. 99 ff. ( Online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Date of birth according to other information: August 11, 1772. - See data sheet Johann Friedrich Jügel / Anna Maria Wilhelmina (Wilhelmine) Kirberger in the portal heidermanns.net , accessed on July 12, 2015
  2. ^ Heinrich Appel: Friedrich Jügel, professor of copperplate engraving in Berlin (1772-1833) . In: Kreis Ahrweiler (ed.): Heimatjahrbuch 1972 , Ahrweiler, p. 99 ff.
  3. Engravings by Johann Friedrich Jügel, 1772–1833 ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the portal napoleon-series.org , accessed on July 12, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.napoleon-series.org
  4. ^ Intelligence Gazette 1815 , Nro. X, bookseller advertisements, p. 94 f. ( Google Books )
  5. Schinkel, Karl Friedrich: Schlossbrücke, Museum, Dom und Schloss , website in the zeno.org portal , accessed on July 12, 2015