Friedrich Lossow

Boring company! , 1868 (from: Daheim )

Friedrich Lossow (born June 13, 1837 in Munich , † January 19, 1872 in Schleissheim ) was a German animal painter and illustrator .

Life

Friedrich Lossow was the second of three sons of the Munich-based sculptor Arnold Hermann Lossow and his wife Friederike. He grew up in Munich with his brothers Karl and Heinrich . From 1845 to 1848 he attended the Protestant school in Glockenbachstrasse, moved to the Royal College in 1848, and in 1849 to the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich . At the annual "public mention" in free hand drawing, but also praised for his hard work and good progress, he nevertheless left the grammar school at the beginning of 1852. On October 30, 1852, his entry into the class of antiquities at the Munich Art Academy , headed by Johann Georg Hiltensperger , is documented. In 1860 he switched to the painting class of the history painter Karl Theodor Piloty for a short time . After leaving the art academy, he specialized as an animal painter, advised by Theodor Horschelt , Friedrich Voltz and Alexander von Kotzebue, among others . As a painter and draftsman, he settled in Munich all his life. He worked as an illustrator for the Munich publishing house Braun & Schneider and its Munich Bilderbogen and Fliegende Blätter ; also for book editions for the Stuttgart publishers Cohen & Risch, Nitzschke and Kröner. His oil paintings, watercolors and original drawings have been shown at exhibitions in Munich and, among others, in Cologne and Vienna. Many of them appeared in the implementation as wood engravings in the illustrated family papers of the time, such as "Daheim" , " Gartenlaube " or " Über Land und Meer ". Lossow was friends with Wilhelm Busch , who caricatured him in a dressing gown on the occasion of a joint study visit in the summer of 1858 in Brannenburg, Upper Bavaria . Lossow drew illustrations for Busch's occasional poem “The careless rent. An instructive story ”.

Friedrich Lossow died only 34 years old in Schleissheim near Munich, where his brother Heinrich was based. He was buried in the old southern cemetery in Munich.

Works (selection)

• A sitting chicken dog and two dachshunds , pencil with pen drawing: Munich, Stadtmuseum; Maillinger Collection.
• Head of a dog , oil on canvas, 1860: art trade
• Farm dog with rooster and chicken , oil on canvas, 1860: art trade
• Feeding the dogs , watercolor, 1861: art trade
• Bitch with her young , 1861 (Bötticher, No. 2)
• Rat hunt , rats followed by dogs, 1861 (Bötticher, No. 3: Cologne, 2nd general and historical art exhibition)
• Rat Hunt , Rat and Pinscher, 1862 (Bötticher, No. 4)
• Rural scene at the oven , 1865 (Bötticher, No. 5)
• Dog and monkey theater on the road , 1866 (Bötticher, No. 8)
• Dog and Frog , 1866 (Bötticher, No. 7: Vienna, Austrian KV 1866)
• Young donkey attacked by geese , 1866 (Boetticher, No. 6)
• Noon rest in the stable (Bötticher, No. 9: Vienna, 3rd general German KA. 1868)
• Disturbed midday rest , (Bötticher, No. 10: Vienna, 3rd general German KA. 1868)
• Viehmarkt zu Keferloh , 1869, watercolor, 32 × 44 cm: art trade
• At the waterfall in the English Garden in Munich , 1869; Watercolor and pencil, heightened with white, 22.2 × 34 cm: Kunsthandel
• Dachshund, who, with the lack of courtoisie that was typical of the flail years, threw an unhappy doll out of the pram and bedded himself in the virgin camp with all the comfort of a green boy , 1870 (Bötticher, No. 11)
• The abandoned filling : Catalog of original works by German artists, annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1871, No. 17
• Cow with newborn calf in the stable , 1871; Oil on canvas, 74 × 108 cm: art trade
• Early awakened lust for fighting (Bötticher, No. 12: Munich, Kunstverein, summer 1874; Kasseler Kunstverein, spring 1875)

Illustrated books (selection)

• A. Biermann, Dr. Oderfeld: The latest illustrated hunting book. Experience and instructions for a rational operation of medium and low hunt for hunters and hunting enthusiasts. Verlag von Richard Neumeister, Leipzig 1869. With 18 illustrations by Friedrich Lossow, 50 other images printed in the text, a cover picture, etc. by L. Hofmann.
• Kynopädie or the well-behaved dog. A didactic poem by Sebastian Auf, the Liberal Arts Licentiate. With 15 illustrations by Friedrich Lossow. Cohen & Risch, Stuttgart 1868.
• The story of the little deer. In pictures by Friedrich Lossow and rhymes by J. Trojan. A. Kröner, Stuttgart 1870. 16 sheets. With 15 half-page xylographs and half-canvas volume illustrated in color.
• Lossow's book of fables. Selected fables. With 32 pictures. Cut in wood by Closs & Ruff. JG Kötzle, Stuttgart [o. J. around 1870].
• Donkey's suffering. Weise, Stuttgart 1872.
• The single horse. The malicious donkey. Two funny stories in pictures. Braun & Schneider, Munich 1874: title vignette; 16 wood engravings (Munich picture books, 27; first published in 1865 and 1866 as picture sheets 408 and 424).
• The futile rat hunt. Pranks and adventures of little Joli. Braun & Schneider, Munich 1874: title vignette; 24 wood engravings; first published in 1862 and 1865 as Münchener Bilderbogen 313 and 388.
• JG Freihofer: Children's book. Nitschke, Stuttgart 1874, 1877; Loewe, Stuttgart 1896.
• Our dear pets. Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1875; Published in 1867 under the title: "Picture book from the life of domestic animals".
• Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Selected Fables and Stories. Kröner, Stuttgart 1880.
• Colorful pictures from the life of domestic animals. Cheerful pictures for the youth. With text by Eduard Ille. Title with wood engraving and 35 wood engravings in the text. Braun & Schneider, undated [around 1880] (Münchner Bilderbücher, 22: first published as Münchener Bilderbogen: the illustrations dated: 1861).
• Animal stories in pictures and rhymes for the dear children's world. Braun & Schneider, Munich undated (around 1880): title vignette; 15 wood engravings; Munich picture books 15; first published in 1858 as Münchener Bilderbogen 256.
• W. Werther (Ed.): The youth fable treasure. A selection of the most beautiful fables by Aesop, Curtmann, Gleim, Grimm, Hagedorn, Lafontaine, Lessing, Lichtwer, Meißner, Sturm, Zollikofer. With 18 illustrations. Kröner, Stuttgart around 1881 (universal library for young people, 69/70).
• Julie von Dungern: Small stories from the animal life. Kröner, Stuttgart 1883 (Universal Library for Young People, 137/138).
• Ami in a foreign country. An instructive story in pictures and rhymes by Friedrich Lossow. New youth library. A. Kröner, Stuttgart (1869).
• Latest illustrated hunting book. Experience and instructions for a rational operation of medium and low hunt for hunters and hunting enthusiasts. With 18 illustrations by Friedrich Lossow. Cohen & Risch, Stuttgart 1869 (2nd edition).
• The reckless rent. An instructive story in pictures by Friedrich Lossow with verses by Wilhelm Busch. Hanover, Wilhelm Busch Society, 1949.

literature

• Report on the existence and the work of the association for the support of artists and their relics who came into need through no fault of their own in (...) 1870. Gotteswinter, Munich 1870.
• Obituary, in: Allgemeine Zeitung. February 4, 1872, Appendix 35.
• Obituary, in: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. 7th year, supplement Kunstchronik, March 8, 1872, col. 204–205.
• A. Seubert: General artist lexicon or life and works of the most famous visual artists. Second volume G – N. Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1878, p. 483.
• Hyacinth Holland:  Lossow, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 222. (in the father's article).
• Friedrich Pecht : History of Munich Art in the Nineteenth Century. Munich 1888.
• Lossow, Friedrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 895 ( archive.org ).
• Lossow, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 404 .
• Lorenz J. Reitmeier: Dachau. Views and testimonies from twelve centuries. The last part of the trilogy. Dachau 1982 (fig.).
• Art and Museum Library and Rhenish Image Archive of the City of Cologne (ed.); Albert Schug (arrangement): The world of images in children's books. Children's and young people's books from five centuries. Catalog, Cologne 1988, p. 347, No. 404-406.
• Kurt Flemig: Caricaturist Lexicon. Saur, Munich 1993.
• Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 8, 1999.
• Hans Ries: Illustrations and Illustrators 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelminian era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. In: Internationales Lexikon der Illustratoren Bibliography of their work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
• William Secord: Dog paint. The European breeds. Woodbridge 2000.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 64–69 (Fig.).

Web links

• staff.uni-mainz.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1851/52.
2. ↑ matrikel.adbk.de
3. ↑ pencil drawing, 20.7 x 16.6 cm; monogrammed and dated "Auf der Mühle in Brannenburg Juli58". Preparatory drawing for the Kneip newspaper of the artists' society “Jung München” (founded 1853); underneath the note from the association's editors “signed. v. Bush". Illustration: "Friedrich Lossow on the mill in Brannenburg", pencil drawing by Wilhelm Busch owned by the "Geselligen Vereinigung", in :. Das Bayerland , 46th year, 1935, p. 166
4. ↑ The original drawing was offered in the Munich art trade in 2017: Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2017 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. 
5. ^ Wilhelm Busch Society, Hanover 1949
6. ^ Obituary, in: Münchner Latest Nachrichten. No. 21/22, January 22, 1872