Johann Poppel

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Johann Poppel

Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel (born May 14, 1807 in the industrial village of Hammer near Nuremberg , † August 6, 1882 in Ammerland ) was a German copper and steel engraver , architectural draftsman , landscape painter and publisher .

Life

Johann Poppel first learned copperplate engraving from Johann Martin Friedrich Geißler at the Nuremberg Art School . On this basis, he learned in 1829 the steel stinging with Professor Carl Ludwig Frommel in Karlsruhe that there is a studio operation for steel engraver. And like Frommel before, Poppel also traveled to London : in 1832 William Tombleson's travelogue Views of the Rhine appeared there ... with steel engravings subtitled in English, French and German based on Tombleson's own drawings. The announced place of issue was, besides London and Paris , Karlsruhe.

In 1833 Poppel worked again in Karlsruhe. In the same year he married Sophie Franziska Albrecht in Nuremberg, who gave birth to her son Christian Gustav Friedrich there in 1834.

In 1838 Poppel and his family moved permanently to Munich and only temporarily to England again in 1841 . In 1845 he won Georg Michael Kurz as an employee for his well-known “Gallery of European Cities” , who later became his business partner as a publisher.

In the beginning, Johann Poppel was primarily interested in drawings that he had made on site. Despite his travels to England, however, he probably never saw most of his local views himself. The additional print “signed (eichnet) v. (On)…” or “based on a drawing by…” often did not mean unique items by other artists, but rather engraved reproductions of lithographic templates from places Poppel never visited. Those templates are likely to have been obtained from the descriptive book authors with whom Poppel corresponded. The draftsmen included u. a. Ludwig Rohbock .

The illustrated books were occasionally created as a co-production "with Germany's most famous steel engravers" (subtitle "Der Rhein ...") or "in association with the most distinguished steel engravers of our time" (subtitled "Kingdom of Prussia ..."). In addition to Georg Michael Kurz, Franz Abresch and Ed. Willmann .

Poppel taught his own students according to the General German Biography, including Jobst Riegel. Joseph Maximilian Kolb was an employee of his studio .

Works

The Neustädter Markt in Hanover , before 1858, entire sheet with all text information
Regensburg from Calvarienberg

Poppel illustrated the following works, some with other artists:

  • Picturesque views from Nuremberg / drawn from nature and engraved in steel by J. Poppel; with brief explanatory texts by J. Chr. Ernst Lösch, and an attached translation into French and English = Vues de Nuremberg / desinées d'après nature et gravées en acier par Jean Poppel = Views of Nuremberg / drawn from nature and engraved on steel by John Poppel. Schneider and Weigel, 4 booklets, Nuremberg 1834–1841.
  • Bath Ems and its Environs…. Darmstadt and Wiesbaden 1841.
  • Bad Ems and its surroundings…. Darmstadt and Wiesbaden 1842.
  • The Taunus baths, Wiesbaden, Ems, Schlangenbad…. Darmstadt and Wiesbaden 1844.
  • Rudolf Löser : Gallery of European Cities. Munich 1845–1848, 6 volumes.
  • Heinrich Bettziech (pseudonym "BETA"): Berlin and Potsdam…. Munich 1846.
  • Maximilian Benno Peter von Chlingensperg : The Kingdom of Bavaria…. 2nd volume, Verlag Georg Franz, Munich 1846 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Ludwig Lange : The Rhine and the Rhineland.… .From Mainz to Cologne… Gustav Georg Lange, Munich 1846–1847; Heinrich Müller Malten , Darmstadt 1855 ( books.google.de ).
  • Hermann Biernatzki : Schleswig-Holstein. Publisher von Poppel and Kurz, Munich 1848.
  • The Kingdom of Prussia…. Darmstadt 1852.
  • Mecklenburg album. Publisher BS Berendsohn, Hamburg 1855.
  • Hamburg album. Publishing house BS Berendsohn, Hamburg.
  • Brandenburg album. Publishing house BS Berendsohn, Hamburg.
  • Monuments of German architecture. Ernst Förster, Leipzig 1855/69.
  • Otto von Heinemann : The Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig…. Printed and published by Gustav Georg Lange, Darmstadt 1858.
  • Eugen Huhn : The Grand Duchy of Baden…. Darmstadt 1860.

Status of public institutions and private owners (incomplete)

The Staatliche Bibliothek Passau links, among other things, to 11 enlarged, partly checked excerpts from Poppel sheets from around 1840 in 72  dpi , from there further to 600 dpi. The higher-resolution digital copies bear the translucent name of the owner like a watermark , individually placed in the respective image.

The Munich City Museum preserves 8 drawings and watercolors by Poppel, mostly depicting Munich court and state buildings.

The Ulm Museum owns Poppel's oil painting Landscape near Meran .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the series title of the French edition is mentioned below "Creuzbauer, Karlsruhe".
  2. ↑ Hyac. Holland:  Riegel, Jobst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 542.
  3. ↑ In the holdings of the Thomas J. Watson Library , Central Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
  4. ↑ You can borrow facsimiles from the US Library of Congress and order photo negatives of Poppel engravings
  5. ↑ Passau historical city views. - Chronological index of digitized prints
personal data
SURNAME Poppel, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poppel, Johann Gabriel Friedrich; Poppel, Joh .; Poppel, J .; Poppel, John; Poppel, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German copper and steel engraver, architectural draftsman and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Industrial village Hammer near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1882
Place of death Ammerland