Johann Jakob Vollweider

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Johann Jakob Vollweider: View of a Church, 1857

Johann Jakob Vollweider (born May 24, 1834 in Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl , † November 5, 1891 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Vollweider was the son of a master wagoner and first attended a village school. His teacher and the pastor, who became aware of his attempts at drawing, took care of him. The teacher gave him his first drawing lessons, the clergyman took care of his training. Vollweider was apprenticed to a lithographer in Karlsruhe by his advocate . He stayed here for 2 years before he was hired by the architect Friedrich Eisenlohr and instructed in drawing architecture, ornaments and perspectives. He applied to the newly founded Grand Ducal Baden State Art School . The director Johann Wilhelm Schirmer hired him in 1855 as a teacher of perspective and in 1861 helped him to the position of art school inspector. Schirmer was also his teacher and Vollweider now devoted himself to landscape painting and went on several study trips with him. In 1858 he was in Munich and in the Bavarian high mountains and made oil paintings. In 1861 he made a trip to Cologne, Düsseldorf and Belgium and in 1865 to the Swiss Alps and in 1867 to Paris. Until 1875 he was an art school inspector and teacher for perspective and shadow theory in Karlsruhe. After his retirement he lived in Bern until 1888 , where he married Sophie Luise (nee Sterchi, 1852-1891) from Unterseen and was no longer artistically active. 14 years later he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. His work includes some lithographs and the publication of a textbook on perspective.

Writings as editor (selection)

  • Perspective . Section 1, Text: The Perspective of the Outlines . Publishing bookstore by Carl Mäcken, Stuttgart 1862 (atlas, as well as 30 tables with examples and constructions for Perspective).
  • Collection of landscape studies by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . Veith, Karlsruhe 1864.

literature

  • Vollweider, Johann Jakob. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 947-948 ( archive.org ). - (Here November 7th is given as the date of death).
  • Adolf von Oechelhäuser : History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts… G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 19 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Further mentions in the text, among other things it is mentioned on p. 151 that Jacob Vollweider died in Bern in 1892): “Vollweider's final appointment [as secretary and inspector] did not take place until November 25, 1861 [... ] "
  • H. Türler: Vollweider, Johann Jakob . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon - Dictionnaire des Artistes Suisses . tape 3 : S-Z . Huber, Frauenfeld 1913, p. 398 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Vollweider, August (Johann Jakob?) . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 32 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - with details of some works).
  • Vollweider, Johann Jakob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 529 .
  • Joseph August Beringer : Baden painting 1770–1920. (With foreword ue biographical-bibliographic appendix by Rudolf Theilmann ). Reprint d. 2., revised in the text. u. significant exp. Edition 1922. Müller, Karlsruhe 1979, ISBN 3-7880-9623-3 .
  • Thomas Jutz: The Grand Ducal Baden Art School Inspector Johann Jakob Vollweider. In: Schauinsland. 110, 1991, pp. 137-158, fig. 155.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Klunzinger, Adolf Friedrich Seubert, Friedrich Müller: Vollweider, Johann Jacob . In: The artists of all times and peoples; or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, engravers, form cutters, lithographers ... Volume 4 : Supplements since 1857 . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1870, p. 441 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ H. Türler: Vollweider, Johann Jakob . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon - Dictionnaire des Artistes Suisses . tape 3 : S-Z . Huber, Frauenfeld 1913, p. 398 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Vollweider, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vollweider, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1891
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau