Johann Wilhelm Baumeister

Illustration of a poem by Josef Epple

Johann Wilhelm Baumeister (born April 27, 1804 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † February 4, 1846 in Stuttgart ) was a German veterinarian and animal painter .

The son of the drawing teacher Johann Sebald Baumeister . According to his father's will, he should become a clergyman, he came to the Preceptorat in Aalen in 1817, but returned within a year. He then studied painting in Augsburg and Munich and after only two years he was able to live from his pictures. In 1825 he turned to veterinary medicine and went to Stuttgart. After just one year, he was able to graduate with a prize. He then practiced as a veterinarian in Gmünd. A lithographic representation of the horse's ailments with an explanatory text in 1827 was awarded a medal in 1827. In 1829 his father died and he now had to support his mother and younger siblings. With the help of Hofrat Sick, he came to the Agricultural Institute in Hohenheim as a teacher in 1831 . He used his talent as a painter to illustrate animals. From 1839 he was a professor at the veterinary school in Stuttgart (teacher of anatomy, pathological anatomy and animal breeding).

Baumeister was a talented horse painter who illustrated his own publications.

Works

• "The Scelett of the Cattle", 1841
• "Brief Instructions for Breeding Domestic Horses", 1843
• "The exterior of the horse", 1844 (4th edition by Duttenhofer 1857)
• "Instructions for knowledge about the exterior of the horse", 3rd edition , 5th edition
• "Veterinary obstetrics", 1844 (5th edition by Rueff 1869)
• "Instructions for the operations of cattle breeding", 1849 (3rd edition 1857) 3rd edition
• with Friedrich Martin Duttenhofer (1810-1859): "Encyclopaedic Handbook of Entire Animal Medicine" (1844, 2nd edition 1847) digitized
• "Handbook of agricultural animal science and animal breeding with woodcuts based on original drawings" (1845, 2nd edition by Duttenhofer and Rueff 1851, 3rd edition 1858), digitized
• "Instructions for operating horse breeding", 1845
• "Instructions for assessing the outer appearance of the cattle" (1846, 2nd edition by Rueff 1858), digitized
• "Brief instructions for the correct operation of pig breeding", 1849, (3rd edition by Rueff 1859)

literature

• William Löbe:  Builder, Johann Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 156 f.
• Gmünder people . Einhorn-Verlag Dietenberger, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1983, p. 85, ISBN 3-921703-46-8

Web links

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

• Biographical Lexicon
• Müller's dictionary of artists
• Dissertation on the veterinary school in Stuttgart, PDF