Philipp Grotjohann

Philip Grot Johann

Johann Philipp Grotjohann , also Philipp Grot-Johann (born June 27, 1841 in Stettin , † October 26, 1892 in Düsseldorf ), was a German draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Grotjohann trained as a locksmith and worked as a journeyman in the Vulkan factory in Stettin. In 1861 he began studying at the Hanover Polytechnic . There he approached art and, through the mediation of Peter von Cornelius, went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied from 1862 to 1867. There Andreas and Karl Müller , Heinrich Mücke , Josef Kohlschein , Ludwig Heitland and Julius Roeting were his teachers.

Besides a short stay in Antwerp , Grotjohann spent the next few years in Düsseldorf. After Karl Ferdinand Sohn's death (1867) he chose Carl Johann Lasch as his teacher. He continued the illustration that he had started earlier here and provided Schiller, Goethe, Lessing and other poets with many pictures for the classic edition of the Grote'sche publishing house in Berlin. Together with Robert Leinweber (1845–1921), Grotjohann is best known for his illustrations of Grimm's fairy tales . He also participated in the illustration of the editions of Goethe , Schiller and Lessing in the Grote'schen Buchhandlung Berlin. With Edmund Kanoldt he created illustrations for the first illustrated edition of Eichendorff's From the life of a good-for-nothing .

He has also made designs for arts and crafts, as well as decorative wall paintings in Düsseldorf, Bochum and other places that have become less well known. Philipp Grotjohann was in correspondence with Georg Ebers , the Bruckmann Verlag , the Illustrirten Zeitung , Johann Jacob Weber , August Becker and others.

Major works

• Illustrated German fairy tale book. A collection of the most beautiful German fairy tales based on Bechstein , Brothers Grimm , Musäus . With illustrations by P. Grotjohann. 5th edition. Düsseldorf 1871
• Wilhelm Hauff works . Edited by Adolf Stern . Illustrated edition. 4 vols. Berlin, Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1878. With portr. u. numerous Illustr. in the text u. on plate by Phillip Grotjohan.
• Schiller's works. New illustrated edition . Edited by Robert Boxberger . 6 volumes. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1875. With illustrations by H. Schmidt-Pecht, C. Hammer, Hermann Kaulbach , Ferdinand Keller , C. Brüner, Carl Häberlin , Hermann Götz , W. Volz, F. Geiges, Benczúr Gyula , P. Grotjohann, Ferdinand Piloty , W. Camphausen, Heinrich Lossow , Eugen Klimsch , Ernst Roeber , Adolph Schill , Edmund Kanoldt and others. a.
• Heinrich Heine 's book of songs . With illustrations by P. Grot Johann (= 10 individual sheets in copperplate and 74 illustrations in the text). G. Grothe'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, gold cut edition, Berlin 1888

Illustrations (selection)

• In: Endrulat, Bernhard: An imperial festival in the "Malkasten" in Düsseldorf: and 11 original woodcut drawings. - Düsseldorf: Voss, 1878. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• In: Julius Wolff : The Pied Piper of Hameln . Eine Aventiure , Grote, Berlin 1875 ( digitized edition )
• The conspirators . Digitized edition

literature

• Grotjohann, Philipp . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 220.
• Grot-Johann, Philipp . In Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1, Dresden 1895, p. 419.
• Grotjohann (Grot Johann), Philipp . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Meyers Konversationslexikon , Volume 7, p. 850.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Grot Johann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Philipp Grotjohann , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 8. Leipzig 1907, p. 432.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. nos. 4453–4463 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )