Johann Walch (publisher)

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Johann Walch: Self-portrait in the circle of his family

Johann Walch (born November 25, 1757 in Kempten (Allgäu) , † March 23, 1815 in Augsburg ) was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, cartographer and publisher.

Life

"Koenigreich Boeheim" , colored map, 1798, "newly listed, published by Joh. Walch in Augsburg"
“Swabian Circle” , colored map, 1805, “to be found at Ioh. Walch in Augsburg "

Johann Walch was the son of the businessman and amateur painter and copper engraver Sebastian Walch (1721–1788) and his wife Katharina Zorn, daughter of the butcher Martin Zorn. He received training as a miniature painter in Augsburg, Geneva and three years at the Vienna Art Academy . This was followed by a two-year trip to Italy. Before 1785 he settled in Augsburg, where he married Anna Regina Will (born November 28, 1759 - July 15, 1837), eldest daughter of the Augsburg-based engraver and publisher Johann Martin Will , on January 16, 1786 , and worked in the publishing house his father-in-law cooperated. As a result, the publisher increasingly turned to map production . In 1789 the material from the map publishers Matthäus Seutter and Tobias Conrad Lotter was acquired from the inheritance of Gustav Conrad Lotter (1746–1776) , almost 25,000 individual map sheets and 208 copper plates. After Will's death in 1806, he inherited Willschen Verlag , which he expanded into a major map publisher ("Joh. Walch'sche Landkarten Handlung"). This resulted in the Joh. Walch printing company named after him . His son Johann Sebastian Walch (1787–1840) continued the publishing house, his daughter Regina (* December 18, 1800, † December 23, 1865) married the pastor Friedrich Krauss (1798–1839).

literature

  • Johann Rudolf Füssli : General Artist Lexicon, or: Brief message about the life and works of Mahler, sculptor, master builder, copper engraver, art caster, steel cutter, [et] c. [Etc. Second part, which contains the continuation and addition of the first. Eleventh section W. , Orell, Füeßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1820, p. 4079 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New General Artist Lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 21, Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1851, p. 87 ( Digitized version ).
  • Adolf Spamer : The small devotional picture from XIV. To XX. Century . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1930, pp. 257f.
  • 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. 186–188.
  • Walch, Johann . 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, p. 66 .
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian miniature portrait from the beginning to the present . Volume 2, Fuchs, Vienna 1982, p. 98.
  • Hans-Jörg Künast: Documentation: Augsburg book printer and publisher . In: Helmut Gier, Johannes Janota (Hrsg.): Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagwesen. From the beginning to the present (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03624-9 , p. 1293. 1303.
  • Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica 26, 2002, pp. 23-29 ( digitized version ).
  • 250 years of the Joh. Walch printing company in Augsburg, which is over 2000 years old (1755–2005). Walch, Augsburg 2005.

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1936 owned by Mrs. 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. 24 Fig. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Walch, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walch, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, engraver, cartographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1815
Place of death augsburg