Johann Michael Stock

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Johann Michael Stock (* 1737 in Nuremberg ; † January 30, 1773 in Leipzig ) was a German draftsman and engraver .

Life

The exact date of Johann Michael Stock's birth is not known. He was baptized on September 26, 1737. He spent the first part of his life in Nuremberg. He learned the art of engraving and woodcut and worked in this field mainly for book production. For example, the title page of the 13th volume of the history book series " Newly opened historical picture room ... " dates from this time .

Stock married the widow Marie Helene Endner, née Schwabe. In 1760 the couple had their daughter Johanna Dorothea and in 1762 Anna Maria. In 1764 the young family went to Leipzig. From 1765 he lived in the house "Zum Silbernen Bären", which was newly built by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf that year, at Universitätsstrasse 18 (at that time still Alter Neumarkt) and also worked for its publishing house.

Stock was also a teacher. So he taught the young Goethe during his studies in Leipzig from 1766 in copperplate engraving and woodcut. Goethe mentions this in Poetry and Truth and praises Stock's work:

“ The copper engraver Stock moved into the attic. Born in Nuremberg, he was a very hardworking man, precise and orderly in his work. Like Geyser , he, too, cut large and small plates from Oeserian drawings that became more and more popular with novels and poems. He erased very cleanly, so that the work came out of the caustic water almost complete, and with the grave stylus, which he used very well, there was little to help. "

In the Goethe Talks edited by Woldemar von Biedermann it says about Stock's living and working conditions:

A spacious attic in the large Breitkopf house at the Silver Bear served him, his wife and his two daughters as a study and reception room, in which the student could also find space. While Stock and Goethe were each sweating over their plates in one of the windows, the daughters sat at the third window busy with female work or they discussed the kitchen with their mother.

Stock engraved portraits of well-known personalities and landscapes, especially based on models by Adam Friedrich Oeser . In Leipzig, too, he mainly worked for book printing. For example, he provided sheets for Moritz August von Thümmel's small poem "Wilhelmine", which was very topical at the time . and to Christoph Martin Wieland's “Musarion, or the Philosophy of the Graces”.

  • Title to newly opened historical picture hall (still from Nuremberg)

  • Portrait of
    Catherine the Great

  • Phanias and Musarion, engraving for Ch.M. Wieland's Musarion

  • Knight sitting on a bench next to a young woman, according to AF Oeser

  • Advertisement for the
    “Hôtel de Bavière”
    in Leipzig

  • Portrait drawing by
    Johann Joachim Schwabe

Johann Michael Stock died at the age of 35 and was buried in the old Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig. He and his daughter Anna Maria were honored in Leipzig in 1906 with the naming of Stockstrasse.

Johanna Dorothea Stock became a well-known painter. Her sister Anna Maria married Christian Gottfried Körner in 1785 . Their son was Theodor Körner . Due to his early death, Johann Michael Stock did not know his grandson.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Michael Stock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 83/84
  2. ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: From my life. Poetry and Truth , Part Two, Book Eight ( digitized )
  3. ^ Woldemar von Biedermann: Goethe's Conversations , 1765–1768 ( digitized )
  4. ↑ Thümmel at literature live
  5. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Stock, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH baptized September 26, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1773
Place of death Leipzig