Johann Georg Schwab (photographer)

Johann Georg Schwab (born February 15, 1784 - † May 15, 1852 in Hanover ) was a German engraver , entrepreneur , lithographer and one of the first photographers in Hanover in the 19th century.

Life

Clientele of the room Office of Hannover 1829 with the signatures of Heinrich Striehl and the Hofzimmermeister Johann Ludwig Hole Kamp ;
Copper engraving after Johann Georg Schwab; 1829; in the archive of the Historisches Museum Hannover

Born during the time of the Electorate of Hanover , Johann Georg Schwab founded his own "lithographic workshop , which existed until his son's death in 1878".

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Schwab was listed in the list of estates in the address book of the city of Hanover in 1845 as one of initially only three in the royal seat under the heading Daguerreotypeur - alongside Friedrich Wunder and Adolf L. Solling .

"Schwab, Joh. Georg, lithographer, stone printer and photographer" was recorded in the address book from 1856 in the house at 4 Seilwinderstraße .

Well-known works (incomplete)

around 1820: Hanover from the southwest , colored copper engraving in the possession of the Lower Saxony State Museum , with a view of Ricklingen on the edge of Linden with a summer house of the " Engineer - Captain Lasius" over the open fields towards the Leibniz Temple in front of the demolished city fortifications of Hanover .

literature

Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack & Co., 1966, p. 10f., 106
Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs. 1848–1910 , with a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl , Munich: Schirmer-Mosel, 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 29 and others.
Address books of the city of Hanover, various issues from 1845
Franz Rudolf Zankl: Customers of the Zimmer Office Hanover. / Colored copper engraving. Early 19th century. With a view of Hanover according to IG Schwab, around 1820. In ders. (Ed.): Hanover Archive , Sheet B 25

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Schwab - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Johann Georg Schwab at marjorie-wiki.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Plath: Hannover im Bild ... (see literature)
↑ ^a ^b Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature)
^ Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover , I: Address and housing gazette , section 4: Alphabetical directory of residents , p. 207; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation

personal data
SURNAME	Schwab, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, lithographer, engraver and one of the first German photographers
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1784
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 1852
Place of death	Hanover

[Plath-1] Helmut Plath: Hannover im Bild ... (see literature)

[Hoerner-2] Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature)

[3] Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover , I: Address and housing gazette , section 4: Alphabetical directory of residents , p. 207; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation