Johann Michael Voltz

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Johann Michael Voltz, self-portrait, around 1840

Johann Michael Voltz (born October 16, 1784 in Nördlingen ; † April 17, 1858 there ) was a graphic artist and painter .

Life

Voltz was born the son of a school teacher. He did an apprenticeship with the engraver and art dealer Friedrich Weber in Augsburg . However, the court painter Schmidt imparted his drawing and printmaking skills to him. After completing his training, he became an employee of the academic bookshop Herzberg in Augsburg, for which he created popular prints. After a stay in 1808 in Munich joined Voltz 1809 in the broadsheet - publisher Friedrich Campe in Nuremberg one for which he worked until his death. Voltz's oeuvre comprises a total of around 5000 drawings and etchings that he made for Campe and other art publishers (Augsburg: F. Ebner, Herzberg, Jenisch & Stage, Rollwagen, Wilhelm, Zauna; Nuremberg: Abel-Klinger, Raspe, Renner, Schrag; among others ) created.

Voltz's focus was on depictions of battles and other contemporary events . He illustrated the events of the Napoleonic Wars since 1805, the Wars of Liberation , and even the Greek struggle for freedom . In addition, he drew histories (" Luther on the Reichstag in Worms ") and genre pictures . Voltz became known as one of the few German political cartoonists of the early 19th century. His caricatures directed against Napoleon Bonaparte are still depicted in history books in the 21st century. Voltz also illustrated an edition of the anti-Semitic theater farce Jakobs wartime by Karl Borromeo Alexander Sessa . In addition, he created "5 picture sheets with educational content", which dealt with the use of wool, the forest and its use, cattle and its utilization, rabbits and their feed preferences or the joys and sorrows of winter and appeared in the Munich picture sheet . They were offered in an auction in 1914.

Voltz is the father of the animal and landscape painter Johann Friedrich Voltz and the painter Prof. Ludwig Gustav Voltz .

literature

  • Karl Hagen: The painter Johann Michael Voltz von Nördlingen (1784-1858) and his relationship to contemporary and art history in the first half of the 19th century. Along with a list of his works. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1863.
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Voltz, Johann Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 280-282.
  • Pictures from the Biedermeier period: Johann Michael Voltz. With an introduction by Eugen Roth . Klein, Baden-Baden 1957.
  • Jutta Assel: The Voltz family of artists. Watercolors, hand drawings, prints by Johann Michael Voltz and his children Amalie, Friedrich, Karl and Ludwig Voltz in the 19th century Haar 1982.
  • Voltz (Volz), Johann Michael . 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. 538-539 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Reynst: Friedrich Campe and his Bilderbogen-Verlag zu Nürnberg. With a description of the Nuremberg art business in the 18th and first half of the 19th century. Nuremberg: City Library 1962, pp. 38–40.
  2. ^ Eduard Fuchs : The Jews in the caricature: a contribution to cultural history. Reprint of the edition Munich, Langen, 1921, 1985, p. 91.
  3. ^ Münchner Bilderbogen - Johann Michael Voltz . In: Arnold Otto Meyer collection of hand drawings, Hamburg I. CG Boerner, Leipzig 1914, p. 56–57 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Voltz, Johann Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volz, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1858
Place of death Nordlingen