Georg Kaspar Nagler

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Georg Kaspar Nagler, 1840

Georg Kaspar Nagler (born January 6, 1801 in Obersüßbach , † January 20, 1866 in Munich ) was a German art historian and writer.

life and work

Georg Kaspar Nagler, who came from a poor background, attended the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich from 1815 . In 1823 he attended the local secondary school to study philology and natural sciences, which he in 1829 at the University of Erlangen with the promotion of Dr. phil. completed. He had been the owner of an antiquarian bookshop since 1827 , after he married the antiquarian widow Johanna Ehrentreich. He became an employee of the Bayerische National-Zeitung published by Joseph Heinrich Wolf .

Then he devoted himself to his (on the general Künstlerlexikon of Johann Rudolf Füssli based) new general artist Lexicon, the 1835 appeared in 22 volumes up. 1852 For this he received gold medals for art and science from Duke Max in Bavaria and Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. Since 1836 he has given lectures on the history of architecture at the royal building trade school .

Publications (selection)

  • De Rhapsodis. Dissertation , 1829.
  • Eight days in Munich. Franz, Munich 1834 online ; Reprint of the 1863 edition: Gerber, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-87249-067-2 .
  • History of the porcelain manufactory in Munich. Munich 1834 (also in: Bayerische Annalen, Abth. Vaterlandskunde. 1834, No. 34–38, preview in the Google book search).
  • New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. 22 volumes. Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835–1852, urn : nbn: de: gbv: wim2-g-1707647 (total of 12,500 pages).
  • Rafael as a person and an artist. Published by EA Fleischmann, Munich 1836 online .
  • Michel-Angelo Buonarotti as an artist. Published by EA Fleischmann, Munich 1836.
  • Albrecht Dürer and his art. Published by EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837 online .
  • Life and works of Marco-Antonio Raimondi from Bologna. Specially reprinted from Nagler's artist lexicon. o. O. 1842 (on Marcantonio Raimondi ; originally: Marcantonio Raimondi. In: Nagler: Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexicon. Volume 12, pp. 205–269, urn : nbn: de: gbv: wim2-g-1774680 ).
  • Life and works of the painter and etcher Rembrandt van Ryn. Munich 1843.
  • Contributions to the older topography of Munich. 1847-1850; 2nd edition as a topographical history of Munich and its suburbs. Franz, Munich 1863.
  • The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools who use a figurative sign, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same to designate their works, & c. have served. 5 volumes plus general index. G. Franz, Munich 1858–1863, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-21224 (volumes 4 and 5 posthumously , 15,000 monograms by 12,000 artists). See The Monogrammists. Hirth, Munich 1919.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Kaspar Nagler  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Georg Kaspar Nagler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. Volume 3. Wilhelmsgymnasium, Munich 1973, DNB 740701614 , p. 261.
  2. ↑ digital copies . In: Digitale-sammlungen.de. Bavarian State Library , accessed on September 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Notation according to digitized version. In: Google Books .
personal data
SURNAME Nagler, Georg Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Obersüßbach
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1866
Place of death Munich