Jodocus Schlappal

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Colored lithograph from the series "The Mask Parade of 1825"

Jodocus Schlappal (* 1793 ; † October 2, 1837 in Cologne ) was a German draftsman , lithographer and publisher.

Life

He illustrated specialist books and chronicles, and as the owner of the “Lithographische Anstalt Jodocus Schlappal in Cöln am Rhein” published lithographed sheets on contemporary subjects or images of works of art. As in the series published in 1822, “Monuments of the deceased Cölners on the Catholic field of God resting in Melaten ”, he was mostly an illustrator of his publications.

Many of his surviving works show the first parades of the Cologne Carnival and as such are part of the graphic collection of the Cologne City Museum .

However, Schlappal also tried his hand at forging Prussian paper money . For this crime, he was imprisoned and sentenced to death by a jury . From Friedrich Wilhelm III. Pardoned for lifelong forced labor, he died in 1837 in the dungeon above Cologne's Hahnentor .

Web links

Commons : Jodocus Schlappal  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
  • Kultur-in-Bonn.de about Schlappal as chronicler of a kidnapping case in medieval Cologne

literature

Johann Jacob Merlo : News of the life and works of Cologne artists . Commissions-Verlag by JM Heberle, Cologne 1850.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Merlo, page 403
personal data
SURNAME Schlappal, Jodocus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cologne draftsman, lithographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1793
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1837
Place of death Cologne