Johann Bleibel

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Johann Bleibel: Paul Sinner (1864)
Johann Bleibel: Siegestor in the Stuttgarter Tübinger Straße ( cabinet format , 1871)

Johann Bleibel (born December 22, 1832 in Salzstetten , † January 13, 1880 in Ulm ) was a German photographer . He founded the first permanent studio in Gmünd , but most of the time he worked in Stuttgart , where his studio was one of the medium-sized in terms of size.

Life

Hiking photographer and Gmünd

Johann Bleibel was the son of a cooper from Salzstetten. He learned to be a sculptor at an early age and later did military service with the artillery in Ludwigsburg . How he came to be a photographer is completely unknown. At least since 1855 he worked as a traveling photographer. After an earlier stay in Hall in July 1855 , he came to Gmünd for the first time in October 1857, where he stayed at the “Zum Adler” inn and also took photos there. In the following period he came back to Gmünd at short intervals and stayed in the same inn. The frequent stays in Gmünd were related to the fact that he asked for the hand of Gmünder Monika Reiss. The wedding took place on October 25, 1858.

Since then, Bleibel has settled in Gmünd and had a glass house built in the garden of the baker Knobel near the Kornhaus. This atelier, which was the city's first permanent atelier, opened in December 1858. Bleibel already had an astonishingly wide range of products in this first studio. In addition to the usual portraits, it included pictures for rings, brooches, medallions and cases, pictures on letterhead, portraits on business cards, pictures in postage stamp format, and landscape photos. Bleibel also photographed the city, as evidenced by 3 views of the Holy Cross Minster , which are preserved in the Stuttgart State Archives .

First stay in Stuttgart

In the long run, Gmünd apparently did not have enough customers at the time, which is why Bleibel dared to move to Stuttgart in 1860: he closed the studio in Gmünd and at the beginning of May he opened his first Stuttgart studio in Schulstrasse 3. In the same year he moved to the Leonhardsplatz 4. The studio had established itself well, in 1861 Bleibel was looking for an apprentice who would receive an immediate wage. So he had been employing staff since then, unfortunately, little is known about the details. The photographer Paul Sinner, who later became successful in Tübingen, worked for him from 1862 to 1864 and received a very good salary of initially 700, later even 728  fl annually. At almost the same time, Carl Jäger , who later settled in Gmünd, also worked at Bleibel as “operator and manager” . Johann Bleibel could therefore look forward to a very good business situation. This allowed him to build a new studio at Marienstraße 12, which was opened in April 1863.

Bleibel specialized in portrait photography and was able to make customers a good offer (both in terms of its variety and its price). He made portraits of various sizes - between full-body (“life-size”) and facial portraits in four different positions, whereby the customer was free to “have one or all of these positions made”. Even recordings of a person on horseback or in a carriage were not a technical problem for Bleibel. The prices were relatively low: in 1865 12 recordings in visit format cost 2 fl 30  kr. , 50 pieces 13 florins "[Bleibel's studio] rose far above the craftsmanship of most photographers, was distinguished by its artistic approach." His work enjoyed recognition from the public: "Bleibel's showcases are those in front of which The audience prefers to stand still. ”In Bleibel's studio, catalog recordings for manufacturers as well as reproductions of engravings and paintings were made.

In December 1863 Bleibel announced that he had merged with the painter Jakob Vesenmeyer to form the company "Photographische Anstalt von Bleibel & Vesenmeyer". Vesenmeyer was an excellent retoucher. The collaboration probably did not meet the expectations of both, because their joint company only existed for a year. In December 1864 Bleibel again advertised alone, he also announced that he had also opened a branch in Gmünd in the house of the businessman Pitl ( Marktplatz 21). The opening of this new branch in Gmünd was originally planned for October and was very delayed. However, Bleibel promised that the studio would be comfortable and elegant. The Gmünder branch last looked after, at the latest since the beginning of August 1865, Wilhelm Boppel , who apparently did an apprenticeship in photography at Bleibel in Stuttgart. Apparently Bleibel's hopes with regard to the Gmünder branch were not fulfilled and shortly afterwards he decided to give it up; it was taken over by Boppel together with the porcelain painter Gottlieb Mahn from the beginning of September 1865.

Absence and second stay in Stuttgart

Revers of a photo by Friedrich Willmann, probably from 1867, when he was working in Bleibel's studio

In the same year, 1865, Bleibel found a partner in the photographer Friedrich Willmann who could relieve him as managing director. At that time, Bleibel was planning a longer stay in Italy. Nothing is known about the reason for this trip to Italy, about its actual duration and whether Bleibel took photos in Italy. Possibly it was a private matter. During Bleibel's three-year absence in Stuttgart (between the end of 1865 and the turn of the year 1868/69) Friedrich Willmann continued the studio at Marienstraße 12 - initially under the name “Bleibel photographic establishment, owner Friedrich Willmann” and from 1868 under his own name.

After Bleibel returned to Stuttgart, he opened a new atelier in the “Römischer Kaiser” hotel on the corner of Rotebühlstrasse and Marienstraße in early 1869 . He ran this studio until the end of 1878. His isolated photographs of Stuttgart come from this time.

It is not known what prompted him to give up this studio. He moved to Koenigstrasse 27, where his apartment and studio were on the 3rd and 4th floors. It was probably at this point in time that Bleibel opened a branch atelier, this time in Ulm. Surprisingly, however, he died a year after moving during a stay in Ulm at the age of only 42. The merchant's widow Alma von der Trappen took over his last studio on Königstrasse and started working as a photographer there. His Ulm studio was continued under his name by a successor until bankruptcy proceedings ended in August 1884.

Works (selection)

Some examples

  • Wilhelmine Sinner born Kienle (1864)

  • Paul Sinner and Wilhelmine Kienle as the wedding couple (1864)

  • Half-length portrait of a young woman (ca.1870)

  • Full body portrait of a lady (ca.1870)

References and comments

Back of a photo with the address "Roman Emperor" (after 1869)
  1. ↑ Date of birth: Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 18 (according to the Salzstetten family register 1858, no. A3); Date of death: Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134/5 (according to the family register of the Stuttgart-Mitte registry office); According to this source, Siener gives a one month different date of birth, November 22nd.
  2. ↑ a b c Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 18
  3. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 18 with reference to "Der Bote vom Remsthal" from October 8, 1857
  4. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 18 with reference to "Der Bote vom Remsthal" from December 11, 1858
  5. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 cited “Schwäbische Chronik” from Friday, May 4, 1860, p. 814.
  6. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 cited “Schwäbische Chronik” from Saturday, May 4, 1861, p. 938.
  7. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839-1900 ... , P. 133
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia. ... , p. 36, cites Bleibel's testimony of June 11, 1864, which Sinner submitted to the Tübingen municipal council in connection with his planned marriage. (Stadtarchiv Tübingen A 70 / F5 / 1/20/1, marriage requests, letter S).
  9. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 20 quotes Jäger's advertisement in the “Boten vom Remsthal” of May 26, 1864, p. 258
  10. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 cited “Schwäbische Chronik” from Sunday, April 26, 1863, p. 886.
  11. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 quoted “Schwäbische Chronik” from Thursday, July 30, 1863, p. 1642.
  12. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 108 refers to "Swabian Chronicle" from Tuesday, April 18, 1865, p. 929.
  13. ^ From the report of a Stuttgart correspondent in "Boten vom Remsthal" of December 21, 1864, p. 628 on the occasion of the opening of the studio in Gmünd; quoted from Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , pp. 18/19
  14. ↑ a b c Joachim W. Siener: Die Photography and Stuttgart 1839-1900 ... , p. 134
  15. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 cited “Schwäbische Chronik” from Saturday, December 12, 1863, p. 2706.
  16. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 quoted “Schwäbische Chronik” from Saturday, December 3, 1864. Johannes Schüle assumes that Bleibel has been the whole since the establishment of the studio in Stuttgart in 1860 At that time it had a branch atelier in Gmünd. This advertisement and the report of December 21, 1864 that he himself quoted clearly speak against this taking.
  17. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 18 quoted "Den Boten vom Remsthal" from October 19, 1864
  18. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 26
  19. ↑ Joachim W. Siener: Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 134 cited “Schwäbische Chronik” from Saturday, September 2, 1865.
  20. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 19 cited "Den Boten vom Remsthal" from August 25, 1865, p. 372
  21. ↑ a b Joachim W. Siener: Die Photography and Stuttgart 1839–1900 ... , p. 135
  22. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 19
  23. ↑ Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographen , p. 19 refers to the " Remszeitung " of August 6, 1884, p. 182

bibliography

  • Johannes Schüle: Gmünder Photographers. The early days of photography in Schwäbisch Gmünd , Einhorn-Verlag: Schwäbisch Gmünd 2002, ISBN 3-927654-94-9
  • Joachim W. Siener: The photography and Stuttgart 1839-1900. From the masked sleigh ride to the court photographer , Cantz edition: Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-150-6
  • Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia. Art, country and people in photos by the first Tübingen photographers and the photographer Paul Sinner (1838–1925) , Metz brothers: Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-921580-79-X

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personal data
SURNAME Bleibel, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzstetten
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1880
Place of death Ulm