Henry Albrecht

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Henry Albrecht (born April 30, 1857 in Memel in East Prussia , † September 10, 1909 in Possenhofen ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Henry Albrecht, son of a businessman, initially trained as a mechanical engineer, but then switched to the Berlin Art Academy, where he worked with Julius Ehrentraut , Paul Thumann and Otto Knille from 1876 to 1881 with interruptions . He earned his living with illustration drawings for Berlin humorous papers such as "Schalk" or " Ulk ". In 1882 he is said to have been a student of Otto Seitz , who taught painting technique at the Munich Art Academy . Albrecht's enrollment at the Art Academy for the winter semester of 1883/84 is documented. He also took part in the study visits led by Adolf Hölzel in Dachau. From 1888 he was a permanent employee of the popular magazines and family papers " Fliegende Blätter ", "Illustrierte Frauenzeitung", " Jugend ", " Kladderadatsch ", " Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung ", " Die Gartenlaube " and "Schorer's Familienblatt", in 1890 also in New York short-term magazine "The Illustrated American".

Albrecht also provided the drawing templates for illustrations for numerous book editions, including some of the novels published by the Berlin publishing house “Kürschner's Bücherschatz”. Ernst Wilhelm Bredt, who wrote the entry on Albrecht for the artist lexicon edited by U. Thieme and F. Becker, particularly appreciated the quality and freshness of his sketches, drawings and watercolors based on nature.

According to information in the Dictionnaire des Illustrurs (Marcus Osterwalder, ed.) Albrecht occasionally used the pseudonym Othello ; In 1909 he voluntarily passed out of life in Lake Starnberg.

Albrecht was awarded the Grand Ducal Saxony-Weimar Jubilee Medal (donated in 1892).

Fonts

  • Letter to August Berthold Auerbach, Munich, November 17, 1882; with pen drawing. Munich City Library / Monacensia.

Illustrations (selection)

  • The ray of sunshine or a song about cheese. Illustrated by Henry Albrecht. Max Marcus, Berlin 1877.
  • Johannes von Dewall (d. August Kühne): From my cadet years. Loose leaves. Hallberger, Stuttgart, Leipzig 1877.
  • Johannes von Dewall (d. August Kühne): The beautiful Lehmann. Carl Krabbe, Stuttgart undated
  • Siegbert Meyer: Percival. Leipzig 1882 (12 illustrations).
  • Walther Gottheil: Berlin fairy tales. Walther & Apolant, Berlin 1881, 1882.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer: Pictures from life. Krabbe, Stuttgart 1886.
  • Berthold Auerbach Gallery. Twelve collotype prints of the Black Forest village stories (...) based on drawings by Henry Albrecht. J. Rentel, Potsdam, ca.1890.
  • Hermann Vogt: Up and down. Sports novel. Carl Krabbe, Stuttgart 1890 (100 illustrations).
  • On the meadows! The Octoberfest in Munich. 1895.
  • Fair. A fun parlor game : Maier, Ravensburg 1896.
  • Hermann Ferschke: Papa Wrangel. Cheerful stories from his life. Carl Krabbe, Stuttgart 1896.
  • Anton Andrea: A modern demon. Kürschner's Bücherschatz, H. Hillger, Berlin 1897 (25 illustrations).
  • Victor Blüthgen: A peacemaker. Kürschner's Bücherschatz, Berlin 1897 (25 illustrations).
  • Porterhouse, d. i. Petr Boborykin: At the side of the murderer. The corpse. Kürschner's Bücherschatz, Berlin 1897 (25 illustrations).
  • Konrad Fischer-Sallstein: On board the Queen Elsbeth. Narrative. Kürschner's Bücherschatz, Hillger, Berlin 1897 (20 illustrations).
  • Anton Freiherr von Perfall: The tragic woman. Kürschner's book treasure, Berlin 1897.
  • F. Reusch: Smollis !. Leipzig 1878 (22 illustrations).
  • Paul von Schönthan: The two graces. The queen of the air. C. Krabbe, Stuttgart (1900).
  • Animal ABC: A picture book. JF Schreiber, Eßlingen and Munich undated (1900), with 6 fine watercolors and 24 pictures in color and tone printing (...).
  • Carl Waldmann (d. I. Karl Schlenker): Der Strampelpeter. Maier, Ravensburg 1902, 1903, 1907.
  • The arts and crafts as a factor in popular education. 1903.

Single sheets (selection)

The folk play at Schliersee in the Bavarian highlands. A scene from “Hunter's Blood”.
  • Clown evening in the circus. Picture sheet. Kaspar Braun & Friedrich Schneider, Munich.
  • The engagement on New Year's Eve. Wood engraving by R. Brend'amour after a drawing by Henry Albrecht: 1884.
  • Kurpromenade in Baden-Baden, summer 1887. Wood engraving after a drawing by Henry Albrecht, In: Deutsche Illustrierte Zeitung. Volume VI, 1886/87.
  • The folk play at Schliersee in the Bavarian highlands. A scene from “Hunter's Blood”. Wood engraving after a drawing by Henry Albrecht, In: Illustrirte Zeitung. No. 2617, August 26, 1893.

literature

  • The art of our time. A chronicle of modern art life. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1906.
  • Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. Leipzig / Berlin 1898.
  • Albrecht, Henry . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 233 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Ries: Illustrations and Illustrators 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelmine era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. International lexicon of illustrators Bibliography of their work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
  • Albrecht, Henry . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume I, 1976.
  • General artist lexicon (AKL). The visual artists of all times and peoples. Lim. v. Günter Meissner. Volume 2, de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-598-22742-6 .
  • Siegfried Weiß : >> The fight for the remains <<. Humor, criticism and the relationship to folk and peasant theater in the work of the Munich painter Peter Baumgartner. In: Erhardt D. Stiebner, Jörg D. Stiebner (Eds.): PANTHEON. International annual publication for art. Vintage LVII. Bruckmann Art Culture in SMG Stiebner Medien GmbH, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8307-0003-2 , pp. 204-205.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wiki-de.genealogy.net lists under house no. 7–8: 1866: Owner: Lewy, Meyer; Residents: FW Albrecht & Co .; Commission trading Lewy, Meyer, Kaufmann; Albrecht, W., Kaufmann a. Cleaning dealer; Molduano, F., business agent
  2. ↑ 04362 Henry Albrecht. In: Matriculation Book 1841–1884. the ADBK
  3. ^ Carl Thiemann: Memories of a Dachau painter. Contributions to the history of Dachau as an artist's place. Dachau (no year), p. 15.
  4. ↑ Henry Albrecht. In: Dictionnaire des Illustrurs.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1909
Place of death Possenhofen