Johann Baptist Zwecker

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Baptist Zwecker (born September 18, 1814 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 10, 1876 in London ) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School , draftsman, etcher and illustrator.

Life

The brother of the genre painter Heinrich Zwecker (1811–1858) began his artistic training in 1831 at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main, where he received drawing lessons from Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt . From 1833 to 1837 he studied at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm Schadow and then returned to Frankfurt. In 1850 he settled in London forever. Here he worked with the animal painter and specialist in natural history illustrations Joseph Wolf, who came to London in 1848 .

Zwecker created history pictures, figurative scenes, portraits and animal pictures, especially horse and rider representations. In 1837 he was represented in the exhibition of the Karlsruher Kunstverein with the picture Two Pilgrims , a similar motif, pilgrims and knights Templar , acquired in 1839 by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, an Austrian horseman patrol by the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1851. A figure picture Junge Liebe appeared in The Historical Art Exhibition Frankfurt 1881 from Frankfurt's private collection showed an album of the Karlsruhe Art Association and a watercolor horse and dog in the stable .

From 1838 onwards, orders for portraits of the German emperors for the Kaisergalerie in the Kaisersaal of the Frankfurt Roman were made . Zwecker made the life-size portraits of Heinrich I (1839) and Heinrich IV , which were donated by Frankfurt institutions. In Frankfurt, but above all in London, he worked as a designer for illustrations for magazines, children's books, travelogues and scientific works, which he prepared with drawings and watercolors.

Portrait

  • The Late JB Zwecker. Died Jan. 10, aged 61 , wood engraving, in: The Graphic. To Illustrated Weekly Newspaper , London, January 29, 1876 ( digitized version ).
  • Carl Bennert : Oil, 1837 (as part of the "Panel with 57 portraits of Düsseldorf artists" by Friedrich Boser ): Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum.
  • Carl Thiel : Pencil: Düsseldorf, artists' association Malkasten

Works (selection)

Oil painting Don Quixote (1854)

painting

  • At the falcon hunt , 1847; Oil / canvas, 73 × 65 cm: art trade
  • Don Quixote , 1854; Oil / canvas, 71 × 91 cm: art trade
  • Tom the Reimer and the Elven Queen , 1859; Oil / canvas, 115 × 91 cm: art trade

Drawings, watercolors

  • Gentleman with walking stick and cylinder , pencil, 1840s, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Foundation
  • Iceland (The Lady of the Mountain), 1863/66; Watercolor, 35.4 x 22.7 cm: School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK; George Powell Foundation 1882 (color image : museum.aber.ac.uk )

Book illustrations

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer : fairy tales. With six original steel engravings by JBZwecker . Adolph Krabbe, Stuttgart 1843.
  • Mary Howitt: The Golden Casket. A Treasury of Tales for Young People . J.Hogg & Sons, London 1860.
  • Grantley F. Berkeley: The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies . London, Hurt & Blackett, 1861.
  • John George Wood, Joseph Wolf, Natural History Picture Book for Children , 1861. - The New Illustrated Natural History . Designs By Wolf, Zwecker, Coleman, Harvey and Others. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. George Routledge and Sons, London 1874.
  • Hans Christian Andersen's The Ice-Maiden , from the Danish by Anne S. Bushby; Woodcuts by Richard Bentley (1794–1871). Richard Bentley, London 1863.
  • William Charles Baldwin, Joseph Wolf: African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc from 1852 to 1860 , Richard Bentley, London 1863.
  • Robert Michael Ballantyne: The Wild Man of the West . Crosby & Ainsworth, Boston 1863, 1866.
Illustration from Icelandic Legends (1864)
  • Icelandic Legends , Collected by Jón Árnason: "Fjallkonan" (The lady of the mountain), in English by Eiríkur Magnússon and GEJ Powell. Richard Bentley, London 1864.
  • Anne Bowman: The Young Nile-Voyagers . George Routledge & Sons, New York 1868.
  • Alfred Walter Bayes: Our Favorite Nursery Rhymes , 1868.
  • John George Wood, George French Angas, Joseph Wolf, The Natural History of Man . G. Routledge & Sons, New York 1868. - John George Wood: Popular Natural History . Routledge, 1871, 3 vols. ( The Hartebeest , 1862; Arrival at the Depôt at Cooper's Creek , 1862; Ostrich Hunting , 1862; A Race for Life in a Jungle , 1862).
  • Edward Howe (d. I. Richard Growe): The Boy in the Bush. Bell and Daldy , London 1869.
  • JW Elliott: Nursery Rhymes And Nursery Songs , Novello, Ewer and Co. / George Routledge and Sons, New York 1870 ("Three Little Mice").
  • George Alfred Henty: Out on the Pampas, or The Young Settlers . Griffith Farran and Co., London 1871.
  • Samuel White Baker, Godefroy Durand: Ismailïa. A narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt . Macmillan and Company, London 1874.
  • John George Wood, Edward Alfred Smith: Insects abroad. Being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Longmans, Green and Co., London 1874.
  • Thomas Frost: Saved From the Wreck . Religious Tract Society, London 1874.
  • Alfred Russel Wallace, The Geographical Distribution of Animals . Harper and Brothers, New York 1876.
  • Alfred Russel Wallace: The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a Study of the Relations of Living and extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface . Macmillan and Co., London 1876.
  • Alfred Wilks Drayson: Among the Zulus. The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African hunter and pioneer . Griffith Farran Browne, London 1879.
  • Lucy D. Sale Barker: Some of my Feathered and Four-footed Friends . John Rootledge and Sons, London 1883.

literature

  • Dr. Adrian, d. i. Johann Valentin Adrian (Hrsg.): Rheinisches Taschenbuch on the year 1843 . Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main (mentioned: scene from Don Quixote ; excerpt from the hunt and homecoming ; The bride from the Rheinstein after the ballad by Adelheid von Stolterforth)
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler (eds.): New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . Vol. 22, Munich 1852, pp. 56-357 ( digitized version ).
  • Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter : Düsseldorf artists from the last twenty-five years. Art history letters . Leipzig 1854.
  • Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Düsseldorf 1856, p. 233 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich von Boetticher (art historian) : Painters works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II 1, Dresden 1901, p. 1065 ( digitized version ).
  • Albert Dessow (arr.): Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . Published at the instigation of the Frankfurter Kunstverein; Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the Nineteenth Century , Frankfurt a. M. 1909.
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Vol. 5. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921, p. 159 ( digitized version ).
  • Zwecker, Johann Baptist . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
  • Eva Büttner, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 462 (Fig. Two children with a spitz , oil / canvas, 37.5 × 46 cm).

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Zwecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Gräfer: The Kaisersaal in the Römer in Frankfurt am Main . 1955.
  2. ↑ By relocating them they escaped destruction during the bombing of Frankfurt in 1944 during the World War
  3. ^ AvS: Rhenish songs and sagas. JDSauerländer Frankfurt am Main 1839
personal data
SURNAME Zwecker, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1876
Place of death London