Johann Sebastian Walch

Johann Walch: Self-portrait in the circle of his family (the standing young man is Johann Sebastian Walch)

Johann Sebastian Lorenz Walch (born April 17, 1787 in Augsburg ; † December 9, 1840 there ) was a German painter, graphic artist and publisher.

Life

He was the son of the engraver and publisher Johann Walch (1757–1815) and his wife Anna Regina Will (1759–1837), eldest daughter of the engraver and publisher Johann Martin Will . His godfather was Johann Lorenz Rugendas . He received his first training from his father. In 1803/04 he attended the Vienna Art Academy and in 1811 the Munich Art Academy . On November 1, 1813, he married Regina Henriette Christine Troeltsch (1794–1861), daughter of the businessman Johann Ludwig Troeltsch, in Augsburg. He continued to run his father's publishing house and expanded it to include a stone and book printing company . He also worked as a glass painter and as a portrait painter.

His son Adolf (* August 21, 1815; † July 12, 1886) continued to run the publishing house, his son Albert (1816–1882) became a painter, his son Julius (* June 12, 1820; † 1840) studied at the Art Academy in Munich and died while still studying.

literature

Albert Haemmerle : A portrait drawing of Johann Sebastian Lorenz Walch . In: Quarter-year books on the art and history of Augsburg 2, 1936/37, pp. 177-180 (portrait of his grandfather Johann Martin Will ).
Albert Haemmerle: The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte zur Kunst und Geschichte Augsburgs 2, 1936/37, pp. 181–201, here pp. 188–191.
Walch, Johann Sebastian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942.
Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 26, 2002, pp. 23-29, here pp. 27-28 ( digitized version ).
250 years of the Joh. Walch printing company in Augsburg, which is over 2000 years old (1755–2005). Walch, Augsburg 2005.

Remarks

↑ 1936 owned by Ms. Sanitätsrat M. Fries, Augsburg, Albert Haemmerle: The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte zur Kunst und Geschichte Augsburgs 2, 1936/37, p. 187. 189 (illustration); 2002 owned by Joh. Walch GmbH & Co., Augsburg, Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica 26, 2002, p. 23 Fig. 1.
↑ Matriculation entry .
↑ 1829 glass window for the library hall of the Augsburg city library; 1837/38 (with his sons Albert and Julius) restoration and addition of a glass window in the Augsburg Cathedral above the south portal.
↑ Matriculation entry .
^ Albert Haemmerle: The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg 2, 1936/37, p. 192.

personal data
SURNAME	Walch, Johann Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Walch, Johann Sebastian Lorenz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1840
Place of death	augsburg

[1] 1936 owned by Ms. Sanitätsrat M. Fries, Augsburg, Albert Haemmerle: The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte zur Kunst und Geschichte Augsburgs 2, 1936/37, p. 187. 189 (illustration); 2002 owned by Joh. Walch GmbH & Co., Augsburg, Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica 26, 2002, p. 23 Fig. 1.

[2] Matriculation entry .

[3] 1829 glass window for the library hall of the Augsburg city library; 1837/38 (with his sons Albert and Julius) restoration and addition of a glass window in the Augsburg Cathedral above the south portal.

[4] Matriculation entry .

[5] Albert Haemmerle: The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg 2, 1936/37, p. 192.