Johann Nepomuk Muxel

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Johann Nepomuk Muxel (born April 20, 1790 in Munich , † May 17, 1870 in Landshut ) was a German lithographer and etcher.

Life

Johann Nepomuk Muxel was initially trained by his father, the sculptor Franz Joseph Muxel ; his brother Joseph Anton Muxel also became a painter. In 1805 he took lessons from Johann Christian von Mannlich , later he learned at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1809 instructed by Johann Peter von Langer ). Muxel was friends with the painter Ludwig Emil Grimm , who stayed in Munich from 1810 to 1814 with interruptions and temporarily lived with the Franz Joseph Muxel family. Muxel was probably known through Grimm to the writer Clemens Brentano and his sister Bettina von Arnim .

Johann Nepomuk Muxel, portrait by Ludwig Emil Grimm 1809, State Graphic Collection, Munich

Muxel gave drawing lessons in aristocratic families and in 1815 became a drawing teacher in the family of Eugène de Beauharnais , Duke of Leuchtenberg . Around this time, Muxel created etchings by actors, also as illustrations in the Munich theater journal (1814–1816). From 1824 Muxel was inspector of the ducal Leuchtenbergische Gemäldegalerie, whose pictures he published in outlines mostly etched and engraved by himself.

Muxel lived at Weinstraße 16 in Munich in 1834 (next to today's town hall), and later moved to Landshut (old town 87).

memory

Muxelstraße ⊙ in Solln (Munich) is named after Johann Nepomuk Muxel.

Works

  • Directory of the picture gallery of His Royal Highness the Prince Eugen, Duke of Leuchtenberg in Munich, Munich, several publishers and editions between 1825 and 1850
  • Catalog des tableaux de la galerie de feu son Altesse Royale Monseigneur Le Prince Eugene Duc de Leuchtenberg, Munich, several publishers and editions between 1825 and 1850
  • Painting collection in Munich. His royal. Highness of Dom Augusto Duke von Leuchtenberg and Santa Cruz Prince von Eichtädt etc., Munich 1837 and 1842
  • Galerie des tableaux du Prince de Leuchtenberg, Munich 1841
  • List of the individual sheets of the ducal Leuchtenberg'schen Galerie in Munich in lithographed copies, Munich 1845
  • Leuchtenberg Gallery: Collection of paintings by his Kaiserl. Highness of the Duke of Leuchtenberg in Munich, 2nd edition (with reworked text by JD Passavant), Frankfurt a. M. 1851
  • The Leuchtenberg Gallery. A Collection of Pictures Forming the Celebrated Gallery of His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchtenberg, at Munich; with Biographical and Critical Notices by JD Passavant, Frankfurt a. M. 1852

literature

  • Vorarlberger Landesmuseum (ed.): Muxel family of artists, Bregenz 1997, in particular p. 65 ff.
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Muxel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 122.
  • Karl Bosl (Hrsg.): Bosl's Bavarian biography . Regensburg 1983, p. 541
  • Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian biographical encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11730-2 , pp. 1369 .

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personal data
SURNAME Muxel, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1870
Place of death Landshut