Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel

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Skeleton from illustration of bones and muscles
Cup and saucer in Riedel scale relief, around 1760
Ludwigsburg saucer with initials GFR hidden in leaves

Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel (born August 17, 1724 in Dresden , † 1784 in Augsburg ) was a German porcelain painter and artist, etcher and publisher.

Life

Riedel was the son of a court musician. He received his training in painting from the court painter Johann Christian Fiedler in Darmstadt . He then moved back to Dresden, completed his knowledge with the director of the Academy Louis de Silvestre and was a porcelain painter in the Meissen porcelain factory from 1743 to 1756 . After the outbreak of the Seven Years' War he settled first in Höchst , then until 1759 in Frankenthal and finally in Ludwigsburg , where he worked in the porcelain factory as a painter and later as a color laboratory assistant. The well-known scale pattern for services from Ludwigsburg goes back to Riedel.

In 1779 he moved to Augsburg. There he got a job as a teacher at an art school that had been set up by a private company. In Augsburg he became a publisher, trained in etching and then worked on natural history, which was published by the local academy. He also created 24 pictures for the tragedy Otto von Wittelsbach . Among the books that were published by his publishing house and also illustrated by Riedel was the Gallery of the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Georg Wilhelm Zapf , the first volume of which was published in 1780. In 1783 he brought out a 16-page brochure with the title Illustration of the bones and muscles of the human body for young artists, together with German-Latin and French names of all parts and their brief explanation .

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel: Miscellanous artistic content. , IV. Heft, Erfurt 1780, pp. 50-58.
  • Hans Dieter Flach: Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel (1724–1784). Catalog raisonné of graphics - Ein Grundleger , Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2015, 255 p. 345 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-7954-2995-9 .
  • Hans Dieter Flach: Ludwigsburg porcelain, faience, earthenware, tiles, tiles. A manual , Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-925369-30-9 .
  • Reinhard Jansen, Patricia Brattig: Splendor of the Rococo. Ludwigsburg porcelain from the Jansen collection , exhibition catalog, Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, March 29–29. June 2008, Cologne 2008
  • Mechthild Landenberger: Alt-Ludwigsburg porcelain , exhibition catalog, organized by the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart in cooperation with the city of Ludwigsburg, May 8 - July 31, 1959 in Ludwigsburg Palace, Stuttgart 1959

Web links

Commons : Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schmidt-Auktionen.de
  2. ↑ a b Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8: Poethen – Schlüter. 2nd edition, KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 391. ( books.google.de )
  3. ↑ Christel Heybrock, Gods, Ladies, Cavaliers - sweet games made of porcelain. The Ludwigsburg manufactory in the Reinhard Jansen collection , on kunstundkosmos.de
  4. ↑ Digital collections of the University of Munich (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Gottlieb Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain maker, painter, eraser, publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1784
Place of death augsburg