Georg Pommer (painter)

The Peterskirche in Görlitz. After a drawing by Theodor Blätterbauer

Playing card from the mid 19th century

Joseph Georg Pommer (* 1815 in Nuremberg ; † 1873 there ) was a German painter, copper and steel engraver.

Life

Pommer originally worked as a painter. He came to Stuttgart in 1840 to be trained in the art of steel engraving by his friend Jakob Fleischmann. Since 1843 he has been creating copper and steel engravings independently, including the “Last Supper” according to Peter Paul Rubens or the “Annunciation of Mary” according to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo . He made engravings of St. Francis or other images for prayer books, among other things. At times he also worked in Munich . Among other things, he created engravings based on the model Bathing Children in the Forest by A. Müller and based on the Justitia (Nemesis) by Alfred Rethel . He worked as a drawing teacher at the trade school in Nuremberg.

literature

Pommer, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 236 .

Web links

Commons : Stiche von Georg Pommer - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ A painting was offered on hampel-auctions.com that is said to be signed by Georg Pommer and dated to 1888.
^ Rolf Von Retberg: Josef Georg Pommer . In: Nuernberger Briefe (on the history of art) . Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1846, p. 233 ( books.google.de ).
^ Andreas Andrese: Joseph Georg Pommer . In: Handbook for copper engravers or lexicon of copper engravers, painter-etchers and shape cutters of all countries and schools . tape 2 . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1873, p. 316 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Advertisement for customers of the German prehistory . No. 3 . Publishing house of the Artistic-Literary Institute of the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg March 1869, left column ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Annual report of the commercial school and the preparatory school in Nuremberg connected with it (1873) . Sebald, Nuremberg ( opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Pommer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pommer, Joseph Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, copper and steel engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	1873
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] A painting was offered on hampel-auctions.com that is said to be signed by Georg Pommer and dated to 1888.

[2] Rolf Von Retberg: Josef Georg Pommer . In: Nuernberger Briefe (on the history of art) . Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1846, p. 233 ( books.google.de ).

[3] Andreas Andrese: Joseph Georg Pommer . In: Handbook for copper engravers or lexicon of copper engravers, painter-etchers and shape cutters of all countries and schools . tape 2 . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1873, p. 316 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] Advertisement for customers of the German prehistory . No. 3 . Publishing house of the Artistic-Literary Institute of the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg March 1869, left column ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[5] Annual report of the commercial school and the preparatory school in Nuremberg connected with it (1873) . Sebald, Nuremberg ( opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de ).