Friedrich Würthle

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Karl Friedrich Würthle

Friedrich Karl Würthle , also Karl Friedrich Würthle (born September 18, 1820 in Konstanz , † October 8, 1902 in Salzburg ) was a German landscape painter, etcher, engraver and photographer.

Life

At the stairs to the pilgrimage church of St. Magdalena

Würthle was a son of the couple Caroline and Georg Friedrich Würthle. His father was a regimental surgeon.

Würthle first studied in Karlsruhe, where Carl Ludwig Frommel was his teacher, and then in Munich . In 1848 he moved to Trieste for a short time , where he became an engraver at the Austrian Lloyd. After his return to Munich in 1850, he worked on the König Ludwig album. In the 1850s he also began to work in photography.

In 1858 he married Maria Spinnhirn, the daughter of a lawyer. The three daughters Marie, Thekla and Fanny and the son Friedrich Würthle junior, born in 1866, emerged from the marriage.

Around 1860 he moved to Salzburg , where he founded the Baldi & Würthle company together with Gregor Baldi . Baldi had previously run an art dealer and publisher there and brought out a number of portfolios on the topography of the area in which prints by Würthle were used. Baldi & Würthle quickly became known, among other things for their landscape and panorama photos. In 1866, they moved their company from the suburb of Riedenburg to the more centrally located Schwarzstrasse. In 1873 Friedrich Würthle, who had shown his topographical recordings at the Vienna World Exhibition , was awarded the Progress Medal. In addition, Emperor Franz Joseph I awarded him the Golden Cross of Merit with the Crown.

In 1874, Würthle and Baldi fell apart and ran separate businesses for a few months, with Friedrich Würthle keeping the negatives from the previous period, but the businesses were soon merged again. Gregor Baldi died in 1878; however, the Baldi & Würthle company kept its name until 1880. Then Würthle teamed up with his brother-in-law, the chemist Hermann Spinnhirn. During this time Gustav Jaegermayer (1834–1901) also worked for Würthle. After Spinnhirn's death, Friedrich Würthle junior got into the business and took over Spinnhirn's shares, the company was now called Würthle & Sohn.

In 1902 Würthle died. His son sold the photo studio in 1904 to Eduard Bertel and Carl Pietzner and only kept the publisher, with which he went bankrupt three years later. Friedrich Würthle junior then emigrated to India . Marie and Thekla Würthle stepped in after their brother emigrated. They continued to run the publishing company Würthle & Sohn Nachhaben GesmbH in Salzburg and later in Vienna until they sold it in 1916. The name Würthle was retained as a gallery name until 1995.

Illustrations by Würthles can be found in the works The Kingdom of Bavaria in its ancient, historical, artistic and picturesque beauties , Munich 1840 ff. And in Picturesque Views of South and North Tyrol after nature drawn by Johann Friedrich Lendtner, Salzburg 1852/55. A number of works by Würthle came to the Munich Historical City Museum via the Maillinger collection. A drawing by Würthles is in the graphic collection in Munich .

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Würthle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Karl Friedrich Würthle on salzburgmuseum.at .
  2. ↑ a b Baldi, Würthle and Co. - The company history on salzburgmuseum.at .
  3. ^ Die Presse (Vienna): Galerie Kontur: Tradition im Hinterhof , February 20, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Würthle, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Würthle, Friedrich Karl (full name); Würthle, Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, eraser, steel engraver and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1902
Place of death Salzburg