Johann Anton Falger

Johann Anton Falger, drawing by Anna Stainer-Knittel , 1861

Johann Anton Falger , mostly Anton Falger , (born February 9, 1791 in Elbigenalp , Tyrol ; † December 15, 1876 ibid) was an Austrian lithographer , painter and local researcher.

Life

Johann Anton Falger, son of a master baker, initially trained with the painter Karl Selb in Stockach . In 1809/10 he served in the Bavarian Landsturm . From March 1810 he studied history painting at the Art Academy in Munich . In 1810 he got a job as an engraver in the printing works of the Bavarian Tax Cadastre Commission, where he made maps. From 1813 to 1815 he took part in the Wars of Liberation as a Bavarian NCO , which led to battle paintings. He then lived again in Munich, where he belonged to the circle of friends of Alois Senefelder , the inventor of lithography . The first lithographs by his hand can be traced back to 1814, his works are among the incunabula of lithography. In 1819 he was given leave of absence from the cadastral commission and brought to Weimar by Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep , where he was involved in setting up the lithography workshop of the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir and made maps and book illustrations. In 1821 he returned to Munich, where he continued to work as a lithographer. From 1831, Falger lived and worked again in his home town of Elbigenalp, where he ran a drawing school (forerunner of today's technical school for arts and crafts and design Elbigenalp ). Here he produced several series of images depicting the dance of death based on graphic models by Daniel Chodowiecki : in the Martinskapelle at the Elbigenalp cemetery (1840), for the Elmen cemetery (1841) and the Schattwald cemetery (1846).

Falger was also active in the field of folklore and regional studies of Tyrol, especially his home in the Lechtal , for which he received the title "Father of the Lech Valley ". He also worked as a collector of scientific relics from his homeland, such as species of wood , butterflies , minerals and fossils ; Peter Merian named fossil taxa after Falger, for example Inoceramus falgeri .

Publications (selection)

Gallery of Bavarian national costumes. An entertaining paperback. Munich 1817–1820 (attributed).
Gallery of Swiss national costumes. Munich 1817.
Dictionnaire de Monogrammes, Chiffres, Lettres initiales et Marqus figures. Par Francois Bruilot. Munich 1817.
Images of the most elegant buildings of the old German design. Munich 1820.
Exact illustration and description of the 28 iron statues surrounding the tomb of Emperor Maximilian I in the court church in Innsbruck. Innsbruck 1826.
Holy Tyrolean glory, or life stories of holy, blessed, godly, pious and distinguished Tyroleans. Innsbruck 1843/45.
The pilgrim through Tyrol, or historical and topographical description of the places of pilgrimage and images of grace in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Innsbruck 1846.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Falger, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, pp. 126-136 ( digitized version ).
Christian Schneller : Anton Falger and the Lechthal. In: Journal of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg 3, 21, 1877, pp. 1–21 ( landesmuseum.at PDF).
Falger, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 228 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Franz Bauer; Johann Anton Falger 1791–1876. In: artist, trader, artisan artist, trader, artisan. Tyrolean Swabians in Europe. Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck 1989, pp. 76–77.
Falger, Anton . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 36, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22776-0 , p. 382.

Web links

History of Tyrol: biography Johann Anton Falger
Elbigenalp municipality: important personalities (with picture)

Individual evidence

↑ Register book of the art academy .
↑ Directory of his lithographs in R. Arnim Winkler: The early days of German lithography. Catalog of the prints from 1796–1821. Prestel, Munich 1975, pp. 73-76 No. 203.
↑ Katharina Middell: "Then it will again be a bogeyman for Otto ..." The Weimarer Landes-Industrie-Comptoir as a family business (1800–1830). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-62-X , pp. 339–342.
^ Dance of Death by Johann Anton Falger in Elbigenalp.
↑ Julius Vogel: 100 years of Falger's dances of death in the Lechtal. In: Bavarian Hefts for Folklore. 13, 1940, pp. 51-56.
^ Raimund von Klebelsberg : Geology of Tyrol. 1935, p. 670;
Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 28 ( PDF (372 kB) on ZOBODAT ).

personal data
SURNAME	Falger, Johann Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Falger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lithographer, painter and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elbigenalp
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1876
Place of death	Elbigenalp

[1] Register book of the art academy .

[2] Directory of his lithographs in R. Arnim Winkler: The early days of German lithography. Catalog of the prints from 1796–1821. Prestel, Munich 1975, pp. 73-76 No. 203.

[3] Katharina Middell: "Then it will again be a bogeyman for Otto ..." The Weimarer Landes-Industrie-Comptoir as a family business (1800–1830). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-62-X , pp. 339–342.

[4] Dance of Death by Johann Anton Falger in Elbigenalp.

[5] Julius Vogel: 100 years of Falger's dances of death in the Lechtal. In: Bavarian Hefts for Folklore. 13, 1940, pp. 51-56.

[6] Raimund von Klebelsberg : Geology of Tyrol. 1935, p. 670;
Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 28 ( PDF (372 kB) on ZOBODAT ).