Ignatz von Predl

Franz Jakob Josef Ignatz von Predl (born July 10, 1759 in Plattling , † 1806 in Vilsbiburg ) was a Bavarian administrative officer and amateur artist.

Ignatz von Predl came from a family from Plattling who had been the market clerk there since the early 18th century. He first studied at the Munich Drawing Academy , where he received a silver medal in 1775. However, at the behest of his family, he had to give up his art studies and enrolled in law at the University of Ingolstadt in 1780 . He completed his studies with a licentiate . In 1787 he married Veronika von Kärner and was given the Teisbach maintenance and caste department , based in Teisbach Castle. With the establishment of a provisional regional court in Teisbach in 1799, he became a regional judge until it was dissolved in 1803. From 1803 until his death in 1806 he was a district judge in Vilsbiburg . In addition to his official work, he was also artistically active as a draftsman and copperplate engraver; several copperplate engravings are known from him.

His children were the painter Katharina von Predl , married Grassis de Predl, (1790–1871) and the officer Franz Xaver von Predl (1795–1866), two other sons Georg Ignatz and Emanuel Martin died young in the war against Russia.

Works (selection)

Portrait of an artist drawing a miniature portrait (1799)
Portrait of the sculptor Joseph Bergler , after a drawing by Joseph Bergler the Elder. J. (1799)

A larger collection of his drawings and graphics, including two drawn self-portraits, is in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München .

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler : Neues Allgemeine Künstler Lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 12, Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1842, p. 30 (as "F. von Predl", with a listing of nine copper engravings or copper engraving sequences dated between 1777 and 1797, digitized ).
Predl, F. von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 370 .
Herbert Paulus : Who was Ignatz von Predl? In: Our Bavaria . Local supplement of the Bayerische Staatszeitung , Volume 3, 1954, No. 2, p. 13.
Edwin Fecker: The painter Katharina von Predl, married Grassis de Predl (1790–1871) . In: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern 131, 2005, pp. 37–70, here p. 38 ( extended digital version ).

Remarks

^ The register book of the University of Ingolstadt-Landshut-Munich . Munich 1872, p. 92.
^ Copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
↑ "Jos. Bergler Filius delin. V. Predl Sc 1799 “; Roman Prahl (Ed.): Joseph Bergler and Graphic Art in Prague 1800–1830 . Olomouc 2007, ISBN 978-80-85227-98-7 , p. 393.
↑ List of all artists represented in the collection, as “Predl, Josef von” .

personal data
SURNAME	Predl, Ignatz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Predl, Franz Jakob Josef Ignatz Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian administrative officer and amateur artist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plattling
DATE OF DEATH	1806
Place of death	Vilsbiburg

[1] The register book of the University of Ingolstadt-Landshut-Munich . Munich 1872, p. 92.

[2] Copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

[3] "Jos. Bergler Filius delin. V. Predl Sc 1799 “; Roman Prahl (Ed.): Joseph Bergler and Graphic Art in Prague 1800–1830 . Olomouc 2007, ISBN 978-80-85227-98-7 , p. 393.

[4] List of all artists represented in the collection, as “Predl, Josef von” .