Johann Nepomuk Strixner

Johann Nepomuk Franz Xaver Strixner (born July 28, 1782 in Altötting , † 1855 in Munich ) was a German draftsman , lithographer and engraver .

Life

Strixner was the son of the doctor Franz Seraph Strixner and grew up in Wasserburg am Inn . After first drawing lessons in Wasserburg, Strixner turned to Munich in 1797 to become a pupil of Hermann Mitterer at the holiday school , where he also learned copperplate engraving from 1799. In 1804 he engraved the drawing book for pupils of art and for lovers, drawn from Raphael's works, for his sponsor Johann Christian von Mannlich . In January 1809 Strixner matriculated for the subject of printmaking at the Munich Academy . In 1808/09 he worked on Albrecht Dürer's Christian-mythological hand drawings published by Alois Senefelder as lithographic copies . Together with Ferdinand Piloty , he published a series of 432 lithographs from hand drawings by old masters from 1808 to 1815 and specialized in the lithographic reproduction of works of ancient art.

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He was best known for the reproduction of the painting collection of the brothers Sulpiz and Melchior Boisserée and their friend Johann Baptist Bertram in the form of a larger lithographic work, which appeared in 114 sheets in several deliveries between 1821 and 1840. For this purpose he lived for a few years in Stuttgart , where the Boisserée collection was shown in the 1820s.

literature

August Wintterlin : Strixner, Joh. Nepom . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 598-600.
Strixner, Johann Nepomuk . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 193 .
Irmgard Feldhaus : Painting from the Sulpiz and Melchior Boisserée and Johann B. Bertram collection, lithographed by Johann Nepomuk Strixner. Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss 1980.
Werner Oechslin : Art, Patriotism and "Frömmeley". Johann Nepomuk Strixner's lithographic work, Sulpiz Boisserée and the “cooler art judge” Goethe. In: Scholion. 2, 2002, pp. 93-121.
Irmgard Feldhaus: The lithographs of Johann Nepomuk Strixner. In: Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert (Hrsg.): Art as a cultural asset. Munich 2011, pp. 233–262.

Web links

Commons : Johann Nepomuk Strixner - Collection of Images

Literature by and about Strixner, Johann Nepomuk 1782–1855 in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Johann Nepomuk Strixner (German, 1782–1855). artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ 00013 Nepomuk Strixner . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 1: 1809-1841 . Munich 1841 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
↑ Alvin Schultz: P. The stone printing (lithography) . In: Introduction to the Study of Modern Art History . F. Tempsky, 1887, p. 528 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Strixner, Johann Nepomuk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strixner, Johann Nepomuk Franz Xaver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German draftsman, lithographer and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altötting
DATE OF DEATH	1855
Place of death	Munich

[1] 00013 Nepomuk Strixner . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 1: 1809-1841 . Munich 1841 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[2] Alvin Schultz: P. The stone printing (lithography) . In: Introduction to the Study of Modern Art History . F. Tempsky, 1887, p. 528 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).