Johann Jakob Rieger

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Heidelberg , signed engraving, 1787

Johann Jakob Rieger (* 1754 in Meckenheim , † 1811 in Mannheim ) was a Palatinate painter, draftsman and graphic artist .

biography

Rieger was born in Meckenheim in the Electoral Palatinate and attended the Mannheim drawing academy , where he was a student of Ferdinand Kobell .

Signature, 1781

The artist settled in Mannheim. There he mainly painted, drew and engraved landscapes, often based on motifs from his closer home. A particularly interesting piece is its panoramic engraving of the view from the Mannheim observatory .

In the end, Johann Jakob Rieger himself taught as a teacher at the Mannheim Drawing Academy, where, for example, Carl Kuntz was one of his students. The architect Jacob Friedrich Dyckerhoff (1774–1845) also learned to draw from Rieger.

Rieger died in Mannheim in 1811. A street is named after him in his home town of Meckenheim.

In the book Historical-topographical-statistical description of Mannheim and its surroundings , published in 1824, it says about Johann Jakob Rieger:

"... known to the larger public through his erased sheets, presenting Palatinate regions, which the emigrants took with them to America and Russia a hundred times to recall their dear homeland far above the sea and on the undeveloped fields of the north, which might one day be sought just as much as Merian's copperplate engravings. "

- JG Rieger: Historical-topographical-statistical description of Mannheim and its surroundings. Mannheim, 1824, p. 108.

Gallery of pictures of the painter

literature

  • Claus P. Westrich: Johann-Jakob Rieger: (1754-1811); a landscape painter from Meckenheim. In: Heimatfreunde Deidesheim and surroundings (ed.): Deidesheimer Heimatblätter. Volume 9, Deidesheim 1992 OCLC 180569620 .
  • Dorothee Schweizer: The graphics by Ferdinand Kobell. Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, 1962, p. 27 ( detail scan 1 , detail scan 2 ).
  • Otto Pannewitz: German landscape drawings of the 18th century from the graphic collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (exhibition catalog), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1985, p. 108 (detail scan, books.google.de ).
  • Rieger, Jakob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 327 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Jakob Rieger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margret Biedermann:  Kobell, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 236 f. ( Digitized version ). "Jakob Rieger and Johann Joseph Hartmann are training with him."
  2. ^ Website of the Mannheim observatory with Rieger's engraving
  3. ↑ Harald Siebenmorgen: 750 Years of the Cistercian Abbey Lichtenthal: Fascination of a Monastery (exhibition catalog), Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 1995, p. 404 (detail scan, books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Reiss-Museum Mannheim: Louis Coblitz, 1814-1863: paintings and drawings. 1984, p. 85 (detail scan, books.google.de ).
  5. ^ JG Rieger: History of the City of Mannheim . In: Historical-topographical-statistical description of Mannheim and its surroundings: together with paintings from Heidelberg, Bergstrasse, Weinheim, Ladenburg, Schwezingen, and the pleasure gardens there from Frankenthal, Worms, the Hardt Mountains, Dürkheim, Neustadt, Landau, Speier and the like . an appendix for travelers ... Löffler, Mannheim 1824, p. 108 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieger, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Meckenheim (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH 1811
Place of death Mannheim