Johann Friedrich Leybold

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Johann Friedrich Leybold (born June 18, 1755 in Stuttgart , † November 13, 1838 in Vienna ) was a German miniature painter and engraver .

Life

Johann Friedrich Leybold was the son of a master baker. An employee of the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory recognized his artistic talent and advised his father to let the boy take lessons in drawing. Johann Friedrich Leybold was therefore instructed in drawing by the court sculptor Bauer before he entered the Académie des Arts and continued his training in Stuttgart. He and two other students were then entrusted to the court stucco man, Sonnenschein, who decorated Solitude Castle . In 1770 the three young men were accepted into the military planting school that had been founded on the Solitude. After learning the art of stucco for two more years, Leybold devoted himself to painting. The nursery became a military academy in 1773 and moved to Stuttgart in 1775; a year later a copper engraving school was added. Johann Gotthard Müller was entrusted with the management . Leybold became Müller's first student and later his colleague and deputy. During the time at the military academy, he lived with classmates such as B. Johann Heinrich Dannecker , Philipp Jakob Scheffauer and Schiller together.

Glance into Beethoven's living room and music room

On December 15, 1781 Leybold became ducal court engraver. With his salary of 300  fl , instead of continuing to study abroad, he settled in Stuttgart. His main source of income at that time seems to have been miniature painting, but he created z. B. a copper engraving with the portrait of Duke Karl von Württemberg after a painting by Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck , furthermore tribute de reconnaissance after Johann Friedrich August Tischbein , La Charité after P. Mattei and Venus qui se mire after Tizian and La Ste. Family to Baroccio . A drawing from around 1794 shows his future superior Müller.

In October 1789 he received a professorship for drawing and modeling after nature at the High Charles School , which had emerged from the military academy. A few years later, however, Carl Eugen von Württemberg died , and those employed there lost their jobs and salaries under his successors. Leybold was promised reinstatement, but this was not put into practice. An appointment as the Saxon-Coburg court copper engraver in 1797 evidently had no material advantages. Finally, Leybold moved to Vienna in the summer of 1798. Over the next five years he earned the money for his family and himself as a miniature portrait painter. It was only when his eldest son Karl was also successful in this area that he turned back to engraving and completed various plates that he had been working on years before. These included The Death of Marcus Antonius after a painting by K. Pitz and The Death of Consul M. Papirius after Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch . This led to the acquaintance of the director of the Belvedere Füger, who gave Leybold several orders to engrave his illustrations for Klopstock's Messiah . After Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, the old director of the copper engraving academy in Vienna, died, Leybold became k. k. Court copper engraver and soon afterwards also professor at the copper engraving school. On May 4th of the same year he was appointed to the academic council.

family

Johann Friedrich Leybold had several sons who also became artists: Karl Jakob Theodor , Eduard Friedrich Leybold , Heinrich Gustav Adolf and Rudolf Moritz Leybold .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Leybold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Prange: German drawings 1450-1800 . Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-35305-6 , p. 228
  2. ↑ Schöny:  .pdf Leybold Johann Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Leybold, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miniature painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1838
Place of death Vienna