Georg Emanuel Opiz

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The genre painting Der Völler , 1804, echoes Hogarth's painting.

Georg Emanuel Opiz (born April 4, 1775 in Prague , † July 12, 1841 in Leipzig ) was a Habsburg - Bohemian painter and graphic artist. As a novelist, he published under the pseudonym "Bohemus".

Life

He was the son of the tax officer Johann Ferdinand Opiz (1741-1812), who also worked as a writer and magazine editor and was in correspondence with Giacomo Casanova , and Louise Philippine, a great niece of the explorer Engelbert Kaempfer . His brother was the botanist Philipp Maximilian Opiz .

After Opiz had attended the Academic Gymnasium in Prague from 1789 and completed a brief law degree, he went to Dresden in 1793 to draw and paint, which he had already begun in Prague under the guidance of Franz Karl Wolf (1764-1836) had to perfect. Opiz received lessons from Giovanni Battista Casanova at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1798 he traveled to Karlsbad for the first time to earn a living, to portray wealthy spa guests. Around 1800 he was in Hamburg and Bremen and from 1801 to 1803 in Vienna. It was here that scenes from popular and street life in Franciscan Vienna were created , which were etched by Kilian Ponheimer the Elder , among others , and made him known as a genre actor . In 1805 he settled with his wife in Leipzig , where he initially made mostly portrait miniatures . Probably in the wake of the victorious coalition troops , Opiz came to Paris in 1814, where two large-format etchings were made, The Fall of Napoleon's Portrait from the Vendôme Column on April 8, 1814 and the Cossack Camp in the Champs-Elysées , which were published in Heidelberg in 1814/15. He had returned to Leipzig by 1817 at the latest, and F. A. Brockhaus published four outline etchings for the first hours of the awakening Parisian life. From 1818 to 1830 he worked as an engraver for the Urania magazine published by Brockhaus . In 1819 his main graphic work appeared, the 24 colored outline etchings of the character scenes from life in Paris by Louis de Kleist in Dresden. He probably also stayed in Russia and even Turkey in the 1820s, as suggested by a series of watercolors that appear authentic .

After 1820 Opiz became a professor at the Leipzig Art Academy . During this time, the Leipzig trade fair scenes , which were still being published in more recent times , were created by Kleist in Dresden around 1825. After Stolzenburg, Opiz's artistic role models were William Hogarth , without having taken up his socially critical traits, and Daniel Chodowiecki .

Artistic works (selection)

  • 52 scenes from popular and street life in Vienna at the time of Franz I (1804–12 etched by Kilian Ponheimer the Elder, B. Pieringer and AW Böhm; hand-colored)
  • 4 etchings from Paris (Tableaux de Paris: Les affiches publiques , Le grand matin , Les Halles , Le Savoyard ), published as colored outline etchings in Leipzig in 1817
  • Forts , in 24 sheets, published in Dresden and Schleiz in 1819
  • Monument to October 18, 1813 (Battle of the Nations near Leipzig)
  • Leipzig Mass Scenes (18 colored engravings in 3 series of 6 sheets), Kunstverlag Louis de Kleist, Dresden 1825
  • Le crie et le peuple de Leipzig. (The callers and the people of Leipzig). 6 sheets, Leipzig 1830
  • Scenes from the Leipzig revolt of September 1830 . 6 sheets
  • Le monde en miniature ou tableaux charactéristique de différentes nations. Leipzig 1831 (56 watercolors with scenes from Germany, England, France, Italy, Russia, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine etc.)
  • Parade on Waterlooplatz , colored steel engraving, around 1835
  • "Stiffness and Hoffahrt in Raschwitz", watercolor, around 1820

Literary works

  • The expelled. A tale from the troubled times of the Thirty Years' War in Bohemia. Carl Focke, Leipzig 1829

Under his pseudonym Bohemus:

  • The orphan or the destruction of Dobrowska Hora Castle near Teplitz. Carl Focke, Leipzig 1830
  • Carlsbad and Teplitz. Two historical-romantic stories by Bohemus. A bathing selection dedicated to all friends of these medicinal springs. Carl Focke, Leipzig 1830
  • Woman size or the stupid. Julius Weise, Stuttgart 1835

Others

The traditionally from the DDR-mail intended for advertising for the Leipziger Messe trade fair brands should be published in autumn 1990 as a block with two special stamps and the first time a subject of Opiz, the image "Business" from the "Meßszenen" (1825), carry. Due to the reunification of Germany, they were no longer issued.

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Emanuel Opiz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ See correspondence with J [ohann] F [erdinand] Opiz / Giacomo Casanova. Edited from the handwriting of JF Opiz by Fr. Khol and Otto Pick. [Otto Pick did the translation from French]. With an afterword by the editor. B. Harz, Berlin and Vienna 1922
  2. ^ Andreas Stolzenburg:  Opiz, Georg Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 554 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Madsack, 1966, p. 105
  4. ↑ The block had already been approved by the government commission for the Leipziger Messe on December 27, 1989. (cf. H 1990/1 +2 (no longer issued due to reunification) . PDF. Online at leipziger-messe-philatelie.de.)
personal data
SURNAME Opiz, Georg Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Opitz, Georg Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, writer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1841
Place of death Leipzig