Johann Richard Seel

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The German Michel under the control of censorship , caricature, 1842
The German Michel, August 1842 , caricature, 1842
Caricatures from the Wuppertal poets' circle , including those by Carl Siebel, Emil Rittershaus and Carl Michels, 1859
Gravestone on the Reformed Cemetery Hochstrasse in Wuppertal . Portrait relief by Bernhard Afinger

Johann Richard Seel (born February 2, 1819 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † January 12, 1875 there ) was a German painter, graphic artist and caricaturist from Vormärz . In 1842 he designed the famous picture of the German Michel .

biography

Seel was the son of the pewter founder Hermann Seel and his wife Wilhelmina, nee. Joest. He attended the Elberfelder Gymnasium up to the lower secondary school in 1837 and joined a literary circle to which Friedrich Engels from Barmer also belonged. From 1837 he studied painting at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Karl Ferdinand Sohn . In 1840/41 he was a one-year volunteer in Berlin , where in 1842 his famous caricature Der deutsche Michel and other caricatures on problems of his time were created, such as the financing of the Cologne cathedral building , the entry of censorship and the radical criticism of the gospels . Then he went to Paris and studied with Paul Delaroche . In 1848 he returned to Elberfeld, sympathized with the ideas of the March Revolution , but did not take an active part.

He then became a well-known portrait and landscape painter in Elberfeld and Barmen . He was sponsored by the merchant and art patron Ludwig von Lilienthal . Seel was friends with many of the valley's poets, such as Adolf Schults , Emil Rittershaus and Carl Siebel . Seel died in Elberfeld after a long illness.

Works

  • Album from the Wupperthale ed. by the painter J. Richard Seel, Langewiesche, Barmen 1854

literature

  • Michael Knieriem : "We want to make the Wupperthale a name ...". A documentation of the history of the origins of the Elberfeld literary circle 1838–1844 . Wuppertal 1994 ( news from Engels House 10)
  • Knut Soinè: Johann Richard Seel, the draftsman of the German Michel . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1998, ISBN 978-3-931785-76-5
  • Horst Heidermann : Johann Richard Seel, painter in Wuppertal and draftsman for the German Michel . Thales Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-88908-492-3 ( Articles on the history and local history of the Wuppertal 40 published by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein - Wuppertal department)

Web links

Commons : Johann Richard Seel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Famous Wuppertal people (with photo) ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Seel, Johann Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1875
Place of death Elberfeld