Johannes Lohmüller

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Johannes Lohmüller (born August 26, 1830 in Neusatz (Bühl) ; died March 28, 1918 in Bühl (Baden) ) was a German portrait lithographer and later a photographer .

life and work

Johannes Lohmüller was born as the youngest of four sons of the master carpenter Dominik Michael Lohmüller (born 1794) and the landlord's daughter Karolina Wirth, whose father Franz Josef Wirth ran an inn at Windeck Castle (Bühl) . The Lohmüller, on the other hand, had immigrated from Hohenzollern (probably Höfendorf ).

The boy showed an extraordinary talent for drawing early on, which was initially promoted at the commercial training school in Bühl. In 1846 the "son of poor parents who developed promising aptitudes in the art of drawing and promised to become an artist with good guidance" received an apprenticeship with the portrait painter Ludwig Wagner with financial support from the Neusatz parish and church fund and sponsored by the Baden Obervogt Franz Joseph Häfele in Karlsruhe , which he kept until he was twenty.

Released from military service, Lohmüller was able to begin his professional career as a traveling lithographer immediately after completing his apprenticeship in 1850. His first works included portraits of the water bath owner Friedrich Kampmann in Ottersweier and the Oberkirchenrat Josef Zimmermann (1801–1857), city pastor and district school inspector in Bühl, who quickly brought Lohmüller further commissions. In the 1850s Lohmüller was mainly active in Mittelbaden, and in 1853/54 also in Karlsruhe, where he portrayed high government officials who brought him further customers in the region. Most of his portraits were printed in the CF Müller Hofdruckerei in Karlsruhe. Lohmüller was active as a traveling lithographer for a good dozen years, then his profession was more and more absorbed by the new medium of photography.

Lohmüller reacted to the technical development by joining it and in 1863, again in Karlsruhe, trained as a photographer. He then settled in Achern and later in Offenburg , although he was unable to repeat his economic success as a lithographer in the new profession. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 brought business to a standstill. Lohmüller turned to Basel , where he was able to work as a lithographer again for a short time. He then looked for a connection to a lithography cooperative in Zurich. Two portraits of Lohmüller are known from this time.

Due to illness, Lohmüller left Switzerland for home in the mid-1870s. In Oppenau and Oberkirch he worked again as a photographer for some time, where he received orders from spa guests through the Griesbacher Badwirtin, who liked to be photographed in Renchtal costume. However, this activity was only profitable in the summer months. In 1882 he therefore settled in Bühl and took over Wilhelm Pfaff's photo studio in Rheinstrasse. In 1897 he handed the business over to his son Anton, which was continued by the grandchildren Thekla and Edmund until it was closed in the 1980s. The studio equipment can be seen today in the Bühl City Museum.

estate

In 1987, Sparkasse Bühl acquired 75 works by Lohmüller, which have been on permanent loan in the Bühl City Museum since 2009. After Thekla Lohmüller's death in 1989, the Bühl City History Institute took over the photo studio and the Lohmüller's large collection of images. Lithographs and a. also in the Heimatmuseum Oppenau and in the Augustinermuseum Freiburg.

literature

  • Ruf, Josef: Johannes Lohmüller von Bühl , in: In and around Offenburg. Casual sheets for promoting local history and the like Heimatliebe , ed. in the order d. Local group Offenburg des Histor. Verein für Mittelbaden 1 (1918), pp. 13-17
  • Schappeler-Honnef, Erika: Johannes Lohmüller - The last portrait lithographer in Baden , in: History of the City of Bühl , Vol. 2: 1848–1973, Bühl / Baden 1999, pp. 467–476

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from E. Schappeler-Honnef 1999, p. 469
  2. ↑ Wagner had attended the Munich Art Academy from 1829; 1853 to the bathroom. Appointed court painter, Wagner entered the address calendar for the residential city of Karlsruhe as court painter a. Photographer
  3. ↑ J. Ruf 1918, p. 16 lists over 300 lithographed portraits of Lohmüller's hand.
  4. ↑ Benedikt Balzer, village pastor in Lachen on Lake Zurich ( doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-42974 ) and Johann Sebastian Reinhard, since 1863 Catholic pastor in Zurich ( doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-49025 ); Ruf also mentions a portrait of General Hans Herzog and one of the Bishop of Chur; see. J. Ruf 1918, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Ruf names 1879 as the date of relocation to Bühl; see. J. Ruf 1918, p. 16
  6. ↑ On May 31, 1862, Lohmüller married Johanna Barth (born May 28, 1835) in Neusatz. Eight children were born in the marriage.
  7. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Lohmüller, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait lithographer and later photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Neusatz (Bühl)
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1918
Place of death Bühl (Baden)