Heinrich Rittner

Joseph Heinrich Rittner , also Henri Rittner or Joseph-Henri Rittner (born May 31, 1802 in Ellwangen , Fürstpropstei Ellwangen ; † December 8, 1840 in Paris ), was a German art and graphics dealer and publisher .

Life

Soubrette . Illustration by Paul Gavarni in: Nouveaux Travestissements , published by Henri Rittner in Paris, published in London 1830

A Heinrich Rittner (1765–1835) was tangible at the beginning of the 19th century as the owner of a well-known copper engraving shop in Dresden . This was taken over by Ernst Arnold in 1818 . In 1825 a Stuttgart graphic dealer Henri Rittner moved to Paris. According to an anonymous author, Henri Rittner was a "son of the well-known Rittner from Dresden". Rittner first worked in the Parisian graphics shop Giraldon-Bonvinet in Passage Vivienne. In 1827 opened Rittner - probably with the help of the engraver and graphic trader David Ferdinand d'Ostervald (also Osterwald , 1763-1843), a brother of the cartographer and illustrator Jean-Frédéric d'Ostervald - own business on Boulevard Montmartre 12. In November In 1827 he published four lithographed illustrations for François-René de Chateaubriand's René & Aula , which Alexandre-Joseph Desenne (1785–1827) had drawn. With d'Ostervald he published a series of 74 sketches by various artists.

Rittner met Adolphe Goupil (1806–1893), probably through the painter Charles Mozin , with whom he entered into a successful partnership in February 1829 in the Rittner & Groupil company . The company Rittner & Groupil dealt with the printing and publishing of graphics and operated mainly in France, England and Germany. In the 1830s it assumed an increasingly important position in the European graphics trade. After Rittner's death, Groupil developed the company into the most important European art publisher of the 19th century. In 1834 Rittner married Julie Antoinette Brincard, the sister of Groupil's wife. Rittner died at the age of 38 from a sudden cerebral haemorrhage.

literature

Heinrich (Henri) Rittner . In: Lexicon of the (mentioned) art dealers . In: Anna Ahrens: The Pioneer. How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin . Böhlau, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3 , pp. 186, 586 ( limited preview in Google book search).
DeCourcy E. McIntosh: The Origins of the Maison Goupil in the Age of Romanticism . In: The British Art Journal , Volume V, No. 1, 2004, 64-76.
Nekrolog, in L'Artiste . Volume 6, 1840, p. 399.

Web links

Henri Rittner , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org

Individual evidence

↑ Schwäbischer Merkur , year 1861, p. 2627 ( Google Books )
^ DeCourcy E. McIntosh, p. 65
↑ Anonymous: Artistic traffic . In: Kunstblatt , No. 93 of November 19, 1840, p. 388: “The art dealership, which a son of the well-known Rittner founded in Dresden in association with Mr. Groupil, is currently undoubtedly the greatest artistic establishment in France. Almost all truly significant copperplate engravings and lithographs emerge from this plot, and in their all-round tendency they employ artists of all nations, while most of the others, in the French style, mostly always exploit one and the same artist. ”- Quoted from Anna Ahrens, p 186, footnote 854
^ Robert Verhoogt: Art in Reproduction. Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-5356-913-9 , p. 143 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ Groupil & Cie. In: John Hannavy (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography . Volume 1: A-I . Routledge, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2 , p. 601 ( PDF , limited preview in Google book search).
^ DeCourcy E. McIntosh, p. 64

personal data
SURNAME	Rittner, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rittner, Joseph Heinrich (baptismal name); Rittner, Henri; Rittner, Joseph-Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art dealer, graphic dealer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ellwangen (Jagst) , Prince Provost Ellwangen
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1840
Place of death	Paris

[1] Schwäbischer Merkur , year 1861, p. 2627 ( Google Books )

[2] DeCourcy E. McIntosh, p. 65

[3] Anonymous: Artistic traffic . In: Kunstblatt , No. 93 of November 19, 1840, p. 388: “The art dealership, which a son of the well-known Rittner founded in Dresden in association with Mr. Groupil, is currently undoubtedly the greatest artistic establishment in France. Almost all truly significant copperplate engravings and lithographs emerge from this plot, and in their all-round tendency they employ artists of all nations, while most of the others, in the French style, mostly always exploit one and the same artist. ”- Quoted from Anna Ahrens, p 186, footnote 854

[4] Robert Verhoogt: Art in Reproduction. Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-5356-913-9 , p. 143 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[5] Groupil & Cie. In: John Hannavy (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography . Volume 1: A-I . Routledge, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2 , p. 601 ( PDF , limited preview in Google book search).

[6] DeCourcy E. McIntosh, p. 64