Johann Philipp Ganz

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Philipp Ganz (full name Johann Philipp Ganz , born 1746 in Eisenach ; died after 1800) was a German engraver and etcher .

life and work

Portrait of Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae ;
Copper engraving , 1786, signed Ph. Ganz
" Monument " designed by Ganz and erected by Ziesenis in 1783 for Paul Gottlieb Werlhof on the St. Nikolai churchyard in front of Hanover ; Copper engraving (detail); VD 18 , Göttingen State and University Library

Philipp Ganz studied at the Art Academy in Vienna and was apparently on a study visit to Leipzig in the early 1770s. He was court engraver of the Electorate of Hanover in Göttingen and Hanover and since 1784 a member of the Academy of Mahlerey and Sculpture in Kassel .

Philipp Ganz mainly created small-format engravings with portraits , landscapes and depictions of ancient statues from the Wallmoden Collection . Characteristic for his work are a very fine line and graphics in crayon style. His works are often with “Ph. Entirely ”signed, sometimes with“ GZ ”or“ G. del. et. sculp. ”.

Ganz created portraits of personalities in Hanover, of Prince Friedrich of York , of General Superintendent Johann Friedrich Jacobi zu Celle, of doctor and writer Johann Georg Zimmermann , of court doctor Johann Adam Kersting , of court pharmacist Andreae , of Freiherr von Knigge and of Dorothea Schlözer .

The ex-libris of the Royal Public Library in Hanover, in use since 1776, really stood out . He was also responsible for the typographic equipment of the fifth volume of the great Guelf source history ("Origines guelficae") edited by Johann Heinrich Jung .

In 1792 the budget for the copper engraver of the Royal Library of Hanover was increased from 192 to 250 Reichstaler and Johann Gerhard Huck was employed as court copper engraver. However, Philipp Ganz was still an employee of the library until 1800.

Ganz designed and drew the tomb for the court advisor and royal personal physician Paul Gottlieb Werlhof , which was executed in 1783 by Johann Friedrich Ziesenis for the St. Nikolai cemetery in Hanover.

Ganz was a member of the Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär and in 1777 a founding member of the Lodge Zur Ceder in Hanover.

Publications

  • Experiment on copper meshing in the manner of a drawing. 1772.

literature

  • Hofkupferstecher in Hanover […]. In: Alheidis von Rohr : Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - Hanover - 1840); Painter for King and People , book accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Historisches Museum Hannover, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-910073-15-8 , pp. 43–46
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : Ganz, Johann Philipp. In: ders: New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 5, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837, p. 13 ; limited preview in Google Book search.
  • Ganz (Johann Philipp) . In: Johann Georg Meusel : Teutsches Künstlerlexikon or directory of the now living German artists . 1st volume, second revised edition, Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1808, p. 277 f .; limited preview in Google Book search.
  • Ganz, Philipp (Johann Ph.) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 164 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Dankmar Trier: Quite, Philipp . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 48, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22788-4 , p. 426.
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. Volume 2, Schünemann, Bremen 1823, pp. 91-92; urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46: 1-1132 (digitized version of the SuUB Bremen).
  • Peter Bode: The Harz. Fascinating landscape in the graphic from 1780 to 1830. Peter Bode with the participation of Claudia Grahmann, Uwe Lagatz and Rainer Schulze, ed. from the Wernigerode Cultural Foundation. Jüttners Verlagbuchhandlung, Wernigerode 2016, ISBN 978-3-910157-20-0 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Philipp Ganz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Rebel: Facsimile and Mimesis: Studies on German reproduction graphics of the 18th century. Diss. University of Munich 1979, Mäander, Mittenwald 1981, ISBN 3-88219-048-5 , p. 71.
  2. ↑ a b c Alheidis von Rohr : Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - Hanover - 1840). Hannover 1998, pp. 43-46.
  3. ^ Ganz, Johann Philipp in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of November 7, 2011; Retrieved June 20, 2017
  4. ^ Göttingische scholars advertisements 136, November 6, 1780; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Werner Ohnsorge: Two hundred years of history of the Royal Library in Hanover (1665–1866). Publications of the Lower Saxony Archive Administration H. 14, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962, p. 51.
  6. ↑ List of names of those whose contributions to Blessed Hofrath and Leibmedicus Werlhof raised this monument in the St. Nicolai churchyard in front of Hanover in April 1783. 1783, 10626247 in VD 18 .
  7. ↑ (Joh. Theod. Alex.) Richter: History of the Loge zur Ceder. In: Carl Rümpler: Freemasonry in the Oriente of Hanover: Reminder sheets for the festivals of January 14th and 15th, 1857. Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, Hanover 1859, p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Quite, Johann Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quite, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH after 1796