Johannes Nöhring
Johannes Heinrich Franz Nöhring (born May 2, 1834 in Wesloe ; † August 2, 1913 in Lübeck ) was a German architecture and art photographer .
Life
Nöhring was the son of a Lübeck soldier and forest worker and grew up from the age of nine with his father's superior, the forester Carl Hermann Haug , in the Waldhusen forest house . Nöhring initially wanted to become an artist, but the necessary scholarship to attend an art academy was not granted to him in 1856. He became a restorer and worked on the restoration of the Elisabeth Church in Marburg during his wanderings .
In 1861 he acquired the citizenship of his hometown and went as a photographer independently . In addition to the then very modern portraits, he also made his first reproductions of Lübeck works of art, such as the works of the Nazarene Friedrich Overbeck in Lübeck and the Memling Altar , which was still in Lübeck Cathedral at that time . He also took up the collection of art topographical recordings that Joseph Wilhelm Pero had begun for Lübeck and thus continued his recordings - Lübeck's profane architecture , which was increasingly threatened with the lifting of the gate lock in 1864 .
He also made such recordings of many Gothic and Renaissance buildings in other cities in northern Germany. The recordings were sold through the Hamburg bookseller Hermann Grüning until 1871 . Thereafter, Nöhring marketed his work independently as a publisher and was honored with a medal at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 for his photographs of architecture and visual arts. In 1874 he opened a photographic printing company with Albert Frisch . Frisch had acquired his knowledge of this new technology from its inventor, Joseph Albert . However, this collaboration was not crowned with economic success and only lasted for a short time. While Frisch made another attempt in Berlin, Nöhring had to sell his publishing house in Lübeck to the Lübeck bookseller Carl Bolhoevener . Bolhoevener moved his business activities to Munich in 1877, where Nöhring followed him as an employee for a short time.
In 1879 Nöhring returned to Lübeck and again founded a photographic printing company. This second attempt was more successful, in particular its systematic inclusion of all Lübeck cultural assets was now in demand due to increased interest in German history and art history. Nöhring worked as a photographer and publisher on the state inventory of cultural assets both in Mecklenburg - in collaboration with Friedrich Schlie - and in Lübeck. The first volume of the " Architectural and Art Monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck" published by the Lübeck building authorities was published in 1906 by Johannes Nöhrings Verlag in Lübeck.
Elisabeth Reuter , a freelance artist from Lübeck, was commissioned by the Senate to paint the large painting “View of Lübeck”, which was widely acclaimed, for the small cruiser Nymph . The painting was published by Nöhrings Verlag as a postcard with the title “ Lübeck. Port. " released.
Nöhring succeeded Carl Julius Milde as a restorer in Lübeck. In 1904 he retired as a photographer. His son, the art dealer and publisher Bernhard Nöhring (1866–1938) continued the publishing house .
Works
- Adolph Goldschmidt : Lübeck painting and sculpture until 1530. with 43 collotype plates by Joh. Nöhring, Lübeck, 1889.
- "Weber Collection" . Paintings by old masters from the Weber Collection . Collotype prints from photographs. 4 deliveries of 25 sheets each. Printed and published by Joh.Nöhring, Lübeck around 1898.
- Album of medieval monuments in photographs . (12 deliveries). 1. Delivery: Marienkirche and City Hall in Lübeck, Commission publisher Hermann Grüning.
- Karl Rettich Album: a selection of outstanding works by the artist. Nöhring, Lübeck 1904 (24 illustrations)
- Forest and sea: 10 pictures from the Rostocker Heide / by Prof. K. Rettich. Collotype by Joh. Nöhring, Lübeck
literature
- Jan Zimmermann : Nöhring, Johannes in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Volume 11, Neumünster 2000, pp. 295–298. ISBN 978-3-529-02640-9
- Alexander Bastek, Jan Zimmermann (Ed.): Photography in Lübeck 1840-1945 . Imhof, Petersberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-7319-0366-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. E. Hornig : Photographische Correspondenz , 10th year, Vienna, 1873, p. 87. He received the Merit Medal for architecture and reproductions of paintings. Another indication of the quality of his photographs of paintings (from the Munich Pinakothek) can be found in Hermann Vogel (ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , Verlag Robert Oppenheim, Berlin, 1876, 12th year p. 255, (In the general assembly of the association z. Funding of the photo from January 7, 1876).
- ↑ Dr. E. Hornig: Photographische Correspondenz , 11th year, Vienna, 1874, p. 150.
- ↑ Dr. E. Hornig: Photographische Correspondenz , 15th Jg., Vienna, 1878, p. 25. The statement in the text that Mr. Bolhoevener has been in Munich for about 2 years would mean in an edition from 1878 that he was moving to Munich could have taken place as early as 1876.
- ↑ Schaumann, Gustav ; Bruns, Friedrich (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , ed. from the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906
- ↑ Dr. Karl Woermann : Scientific. Directory of older paintings from Galerie Weber in Hamburg , Kunstanstalt Wilhelm Hoffmann, Dresden, 1907, 2nd edition, p. (Without page numbers; see alphabetical directory of the abbreviated books, ..), online .
- ↑ Announcement: Dr. Carl von Lützow: Journal of Fine Arts , Volume 2, Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig, 1867, p. 84, online .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nöhring, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nöhring, Johannes Heinrich Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architecture and art photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesloe |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1913 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |