Bernhard Liebig

Georg Bernhard Liebig (born March 17, 1873 in Wernersdorf, Silesia , † 1937 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and graphic artist and known for his etchings and ex-libris works.

life and work

Portrait of Johannes Moorhart in hunter's uniform with coat of arms. Painted in 1920

Bookplate for Oskar Leuschner (before 1920)

Liebig spent his youth on his parents' farm in what was then Wernersdorf in the Giant Mountains and felt the desire to draw from an early age.

He studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts with Julius Ehrentraut and Max Koner and at the Weimar Art School with Carl Frithjof Smith . He went to Frankfurt am Main around 1893, where he mainly worked. His creative period was mainly between 1888 and 1918. He spent his summer vacation in the pension in the old office building in Seeheim-Jugenheim , mainly between 1928 and 1933.

There is a cycle of etchings by him on the city of Frankfurt (around 1900), on the city of Mainz (before 1910), on various castles on the Rhine (before 1912) and an etching by Marianne von Willemer . In addition, he made many bookplates for various personalities, for example for Oskar Leuschner (1870–1935). Several artist postcards of the old Frankfurt of his pictures about Frankfurt were published .

It is not known whether he with the one from North Bohemia originated and later ennobled clothier - and merchant family Liebieg was in kinship relationship.

Works

Old Frankfurt a. M. - 12 original etchings. Frankfurt am Main 1900, 1910, 1912.
Rhine castles. 12 etchings, Frankfurt am Main 1910, 1912.
Golden Mainz. 12 etchings, Frankfurt am Main 1910.

Etching: Mainz Cathedral (1904)
Etching: Main view Frankfurt a. M. (around 1900)

literature

Liebig, Bernhard . 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. 203 .
Austrian Exlibris Society (Ed.): Publications of the Austrian Exlibris Society. Volume VI, 1908, p. 45 ff.

Web links

Commons : Georg Bernhard Liebig - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ In part, the year of death is also given as around 1929, Manfred Neureiter: Lexikon der Exlibriskünstler. BoD, 3rd edition 2013, p. 358.
↑ Publications of the Austrian Ex-Libris Society. Volume VI, 1908, p. 45.
^ Oskar Leuschner was an active member of the German Exlibris Society, bookseller in Leipzig and Berlin . He was known, among other places, in Berlin as the publisher of the prehistoric papers .

personal data
SURNAME	Liebig, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Liebig, Georg Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wernersdorf, Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	1937
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] In part, the year of death is also given as around 1929, Manfred Neureiter: Lexikon der Exlibriskünstler. BoD, 3rd edition 2013, p. 358.

[2] Publications of the Austrian Ex-Libris Society. Volume VI, 1908, p. 45.

[3] Oskar Leuschner was an active member of the German Exlibris Society, bookseller in Leipzig and Berlin . He was known, among other places, in Berlin as the publisher of the prehistoric papers .