Heinrich Schlitt

Heinrich Schlitt: jug made of incised stoneware (design for Villeroy & Boch )

Vault painting in the Ratskeller, New Town Hall Munich

Wall painting in the Ratskeller of Munich's New Town Hall "When wine and beer are at war ..."

Heinrich Schlitt (born August 21, 1849 in Biebrich am Rhein , † November 19, 1923 in Munich ) was an artist who was best known for his dwarf , legend and fairy tale motifs .

life and work

Schlitt was the son of a chancellery. He was initially a soldier in the Dutch service.

His talent as a painter was promoted by the Wiesbaden painter Kaspar Kögler , who ran a painting and drawing school in Wiesbaden. Since May 1875 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Barth and Wilhelm Lindenschmit in the nature class. He exhibited his works for the Munich Artists' Cooperative in the Royal Glass Palace . He lived for some time at Heustraße 18 and later at Schwanthalerstraße 95.

Draftsman, illustrator and faience painter

He took the motifs for his humorous pictures from everyday situations. Schlitt painted pictures and gave his motif to jugs. He also worked successfully as an illustrator for the Illustrirte Zeitung , the magazines Über Land und Meer , Daheim and Schalk . Although Schlitt has remained almost unknown in Germany, he has an international reputation as a well-known gnome and faience painter, and his art objects were popular in America. Among other things , he designed ceramics for Villeroy & Boch at the beginning of the 20th century . The beer mugs he designed are still sought-after collector's items on the art market today .

Wall painter

Together with Kögler and his younger colleague Wilhelm Weimar (1859–1914), he painted the “beer cellar” in the Ratskeller , the new town hall in Wiesbaden designed by the architect Georg von Hauberrisser . The most precious humorous , realistic frescoes of Wilhelmine Wiesbaden were - although under since the 1930s listed building standing - not restored in 1987 from "financial reasons" but eradicated.

The cellar of the also of Hauberrisser in the style of neo -built town hall in Munich, funny and profound vault, ceiling and wall paintings Schlitt was designed in 1905, were maintained. Today they are one of the many attractions of the Bavarian capital and represent a special kind of jewel that not only the Rathauskeller operators are “particularly proud of.” He also created some friezes for the Prince Luitpold Palace in Munich.

literature

Kaspar Kögler, Heinrich Schlitt: The wall paintings in the Ratskeller in Wiesbaden: 124 illustrations based on the original hand drawings by Kaspar Kögler and Heinrich Schlitt with accompanying text. Gebrüder Petmecky, Wiesbaden undated urn : nbn: de: gbv: 32-1-10014988977 (after 1895).
Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 112 .
JA Schmoll (called Eisenwerth), Therese Thomas: Heinrich Schlitt (1849–1923). Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach 1990.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Schlitt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Stein Collectors - Heinrich Schlitt
Heinrich Schlitt in HeidICON Illustrations of the Flying Leaves
Heinrich Schlitt - an artist from Villeroy & Boch in the Golden Age of Mettlach stoneware
Heinrich Schlitt (German, 1849–1923). artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ Registry . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 7 , issue 2 (edited by Günther Dickel , Heino Speer, with the assistance of Renate Ahlheim, Richard Schröder, Christina Kimmel, Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1975, OCLC 832567064 , Sp. 278–292 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - in most law firms a qualified clerk or subordinate clerk).

↑ ^a ^b 03155 Heinrich Schlitt . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 , 1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

↑ ^a ^b Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 204 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

↑ Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art of all nations in the Kgl. Glass palace . Double volume 1894 and 1895. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1894, p. 41 , figure swimming school on p. 44 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

↑ Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in the Kgl. Glass palace . Verlag der Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft, Munich 1903, p. 95, 145 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in the Kgl. Glass palace . Verlag der Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft, Munich 1905, p.
103 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Report on a pitcher designed for V&B on the Stein Collectors website , accessed on August 2, 2010.
^ Günter Leicher: Kaspar Kögler, life and work. Wiesbaden 1996, p. 22.
↑ Bertram Heide: Old Masters painting technique in the Wiesbaden Ratskeller, Eberhard Münch reconstructed the paintings of the Wiesbaden painter-poet Caspar Kögler / Illusion painting lifted from oblivion. Wiesbadener Tagblatt, June 26, 1987.
↑ Marianne Fischer-Dyck, Gretel Baumgart-Buttersack: Stories from the old Wiesbaden, Kaspar Kögler - 150 years, and not forgotten ... In: Wiesbadener Leben. 3, 1988, p. 29.
↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ http://www.ratskeller.com/index.php?id=51 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Schlitt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Biebrich on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1923
Place of death	Munich

[1] Registry . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 7 , issue 2 (edited by Günther Dickel , Heino Speer, with the assistance of Renate Ahlheim, Richard Schröder, Christina Kimmel, Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1975, OCLC 832567064 , Sp. 278–292 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - in most law firms a qualified clerk or subordinate clerk).

[Matrikel-2] 03155 Heinrich Schlitt . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 , 1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[MüllerSinger-3] Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 204 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[4] Schlitt, Heinrich . In: Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art of all nations in the Kgl. Glass palace . Double volume 1894 and 1895. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1894, p. 41 , figure swimming school on p. 44 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).