Georg Goldberg

Georg Goldberg (born May 12, 1830 in Nuremberg , † July 25, 1894 in Munich ) was a German copper and steel engraver .

Life

Georg Goldberg studied with Johann Leonhard Raab in Nuremberg and at the Nuremberg Art School . In 1856 he went to Munich and created most of his works there. In 1890 Goldberg was a member of the General German Art Cooperative .

Works

Johanna , The Maid of Orléans ;
Engraving from the Schiller Gallery , after Pecht , around 1859

• Bacchus and Ariadne , after Jacopo Tintoretto ;
• The Entombment , according to Giorgione ;
• some sheets after Alexander von Liezen-Mayer's scenes from Goethe's Faust ;
• The awakening of spring , according to Ernst Kaiser ;
• Portrait of King Oskar II of Sweden
• Johanna created the engraving for the Schiller Gallery , published in 1859 .
• Goldberg worked for Friedrich Pecht 's Shakespeare gallery , which appeared in 1876
  • The Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main owns 5 Goldberg's leaves with scenes by William Shakespeare :
    • The Merchant of Venice after H. Hoffmann ;
    • The merry women of Windsor after Hans Makart ;
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream according to Friedrich Schwörer as well
    • two engravings on Romeo and Juliet after H. Hoffmann and A. Spiess .

literature

• List of images , in: Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg , fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht , FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1859 ( digitized )
• Hermann Alexander Müller : Goldberg, Georg , in: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1882, p. 212.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women from all times and countries. A reference work for the Jewish people and their friends . Volume 2, Chernivtsi 1927, p. 440.
• Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , page 493. Digitalisat

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Hermann Alexander Müller: Goldberg, Georg , in: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , p. 212.
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: [1] Georg Goldberg
3. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Pecht: List of Figures , in: Schiller Gallery ...
4. ↑ Wladimir Aichelburg : 1899 on: 150 Years Künstlerhaus Vienna 1861-2011
5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library