Johann Nepomuk Heinemann

Johann Nepomuk Heinemann (born May 30, 1817 in Hüfingen ; † February 22, 1902 there ) was a German lithographer and photographer .

Life

Johann Nepomuk Heinemann was born as the son of the nail smith Joseph Heinemann and his wife Katharina, b. Strobel, born. He had a brother Joseph, who was also an artist and was married to the sister of the artist Rudolf Gleichauf . Johann Nepomuk married Elisabeth (called Lisette) Heinemann, geb. Reich, (1819–1871) a sister of Lucian Reich and the sculptor Franz Xaver Reich .

education

Heinemann began an apprenticeship with the clock sign painter Dilger in Neustadt (Black Forest) . After his early death, he learned the technique of lithography at Keller in Donaueschingen . However, he was only busy there with the printing of written works, tables and imprints, which did not meet his artistic ambitions. Like all artists in Hüfingen, he stayed in Munich for study purposes, like his brother Joseph . In 1851, the grand ducal watchmaking school in Furtwangen issued an appeal that the Baden artists should support the watchmaking industry, which was hard pressed by Swiss competition, with designs, which Heinemann also followed.

Work as a lithographer

Even during his apprenticeship, Heinemann drew portraits of his friends from the Hüfiger circle of artists and other relatives and friends and developed his skills as a lithographer by transferring these portraits on stone and printing them. He transferred templates from great masters such as van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer for printing on stone, thereby expanding his skills and perhaps finding the first buyers for these prints. The opening of his own print shop in Hüfingen was initially denied to him by the district government and only approved after the intervention of the Princely House in Donaueschingen . As a close friend, relative and colleague of Lucian Reich , Heinemann was the central figure of the Hüfinger circle of artists around 1850. With designs by Reich, his brother Joseph Heinemann and Heinrich Frank , he began the book project Hieronymus - Life Pictures from the Baar and the Black Forest, designed and portrayed by Lucian Reich , for which he found a sponsor, which was printed and published in 1852. The wandering flowers followed in 1855 and in 1856 the island of Mainau and Lake Constance in Baden . Various individual drawings and designs by Lucian Reich also challenged Heinemann's skills as a lithographer. However, he also worked with his brother Joseph and his relative Rudolf Gleichauf , with each of the painting and drawing artists, and ensured the reproduction through his lithographs.

Work as a photographer

Johann Nepomuk Heinemann was one of the first photographers in the country in this pioneering phase. The Fürstenberg Princely House in Donaueschingen was also one of his customers. This business flourished in the 1860s and numerous portraits of contemporaries were created in his studio.

Work as a wood carver

After the early death of his wife in 1871, wood carving was Johann Nepomuk Heinemann's late hobby. Clock plates, chair backs and other small treasures come from him, some of which are still in the possession of his descendants.

progeny

Hortense von Gelmini is a descendant of Heinemann .

Honors

In the Huefingen J.-N.-Heinemann-Strasse named after him 47 ° 55 '31.9 "  N , 8 ° 29' 5.5"  O .

literature

• Gabriele Brugger: Johann Nepomuk Heinemann (1817–1902) - lithographer and photographer , Kulturhistorische Reihe der Stadt Hüfingen - Volume 6, 2002, ISBN 3-9805125-8-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Details on Elisabeth Reich. In: Germany Births and Baptisms 1558–1898. FamilySearch.org, accessed November 7, 2015 (FHL Microfilm 1,184,323).