Johann Elias Ridinger

Johann Elias Ridinger, self-portrait

Deer hunting

Frey up from the ground first pace from Rider's introduction and description of their school and campaign horses after their lessons , 1760

Johann Elias Ridinger (born February 15, 1698 in Ulm , † April 10, 1767 in Augsburg ) was a German animal painter , engraver , etcher and publisher.

Life

As the son of a father who was gifted in drawing, Ridinger was taught by Christoph Rasch (also Resch ) in Ulm and Johann Falch (also Falk ) in Augsburg and then continued his education in Regensburg , where his preference for hunting to study game at the count's court Metternich led them . After 1717 he undertook further studies in the imperial city academy of Georg Philipp Rugendas . He later founded his own art publishing house in Augsburg, in which most of his works were published. In 1759 he became director of the art academy . Ridinger died in Augsburg on April 10, 1767. His work was continued by his sons Martin Elias (1730–1780) and Johann Jakob (1735–1784). The publishing house was later taken over by Martin Engelbrechtschen Kunsthandlung and in 1827 by Johann Alois Schlosser .

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His etched sheets, which amount to about 1,600 pieces, depict the animals in characteristic moments of life and scenic surroundings. Old prints of the sheets are rare. An edition as "Galerie Ridingerscher Tier- und Jagdstücke" was started in Augsburg in 1817. His drawings, executed with precision and taste, are very numerous.

Selection of his series of engravings:

• New riding art invented & drawn in copper engravings , Augsburg 1722, 22 sheets.
• Contemplation of the wild animals, with added excellent poetry by the famous Herr Barthold Heinrich Brockes , Aug. Vindelic. 1736, digitized
• Draft of some animals, such as those according to their different types / actions and passions, drawn from life, with attached notes , part 1 (1738) , part 2 (1738) , part 3 (1738) , part 4 (1740) , part 5 (1740) , part 6 ( design of some horses, drawn from life according to their different ages and uses , 1746) , part 7 ( design of some mules and donkeys, drawn from life according to their different types and uses , 1754) , 90 sheets.
• Illustration of the huntable animals with the same attached tracks and spindles, walk, passages, jumps, turns, turns, escape, and other signs drawn from nature with much diligence, time and effort, including an explanation about it , Augsburg 1740. online at The New York Public Library - Digital Collections
• The deer par force hunt , 16 sheets.
• Presentation and description of their school and campaign horses after their lessons,… 1760, 46 sheets.
• Exact and correct presentation of the most wondrous deer as well as other special animals which were hunted, shot, captured or kept alive by great masters themselves , Augsburg 1768, 100 sheets.

literature

• Georg August Wilhelm Thienemann: Life and work of the incomparable animal painter and copper engraver Ridinger . Leipzig 1856 digitized
• Wilhelm Schmidt:  Ridinger . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 505-507.
• Peter Prange:  Ridinger, Johann Elias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 555 ( digitized version ).
• Ign. Black: Catalog of a Ridinger collection. (Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann collection.) Vienna 1910.
• experience ridinger 1698-1998 . To the master, who has triumphed over the centuries, and his friends on the 300th birthday. Anniversary font. 1998
• Lüder H. Niemeyer: Dresden speech. Ridinger played down , April 27, 1998
• Lüder H. Niemeyer: The Vanitas graphic by Johann Elias Ridinger , 2000
• Lüder H. Niemeyer: The fruitful penetration. Watteau in the work of Ridinger , 2000
• Jan Hendrik Niemeyer: Johann Elias Ridinger in the realm of the colored animals. Creation and completion of a sequence. Revised new edition. 2010
• Ellen Spickernagel : Helping the eye on the jumps. Huntable animals and hunts with Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767). In: Annette Bühler-Dietrich u. Michael Weingarten (Ed.), Topos Animal: New designs of the animal-human relationship. Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2860-9 , pp. 103–123.
• U. Heise: Ridinger, Johann Elias . In: Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon , Vol. 98, Berlin, Munich, New York 2017, pp. 472 ff.
• JE Ridinger, draft of some animals (...) 1738-1740. Facsimile edition, Dr. Wolfgang Schwarze Verlag, Wuppertal 1975.
• Johann Elias Ridinger . In: Monika Michel: Ancestors and relatives of the animal painter and copper engraver Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767) . Sheets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies , 50th year, Volume 15, Issue 13–15. 1987. pp. 396 f.

Web links

Commons : Johann Elias Ridinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Johann Elias Ridinger  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johann Elias Ridinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thienemann Online (online version of the catalog raisonné)
• Works by Johann Elias Ridinger at Zeno.org .
• Johann Elias Ridinger at Google Arts & Culture
• Instructive fables from the animal kingdom for the improvement of morals and especially for the teaching of young people redesigned, first volume , Augsburg 1744 (digitized from the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)