Josef Jakob Dambacher

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Josef Jakob Dambacher (born January 11, 1794 in Rastatt ; † March 18, 1868 there ) was a German archivist and high school professor . He achieved a certain amount of fame through a number of illustrations he designed for Hebel's calendar stories .

life and work

Dambacher studied at the University of Heidelberg and became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . After graduating, he worked as a professor at various grammar schools, in addition to his birthplace in Freiburg and Constance . From 1828 he worked as an assessor , in 1834 he was appointed archivist at the grand-ducal General State Archives in Karlsruhe .

Dambacher's lever illustration

As an illustrator of Johann Peter Hebel's calendar stories , Dambacher has made a name for himself that is tolerably remembered to this day, although his drawings are not among the best-known illustrations of the Rhineland friend . Kurt Tucholsky's enthusiastic review (1926) of a reprint of a lever selection illustrated by Dambacher from 1842 in the early 20th century ( Die Schwänke des Rheinländischer Hausfreundes , 1922), which the latter called a “strange book”, which always called itself , certainly contributed to this worth seeing again. The reviewer relied almost exclusively on the 32 "peculiar" lithographs Dambacher (Tucholsky calls him a painter who could not draw properly), in which he has atmospheric mosaics, painterly values ​​of perceived nature, the sensitivity of a visionary trowel, and what one Anything else needed for the house meant to make out. The drawings, which contrast favorably with other illustrations he is familiar with, not only illustrate but also add something of their own to almost every story. Tucholsky ended his detailed explanations that he had "never seen such pictures". In 1997 CF Müller published a 37-page documentary about the illustrator Dambacher as "Der Rheinländische Bildermann".

The Rastatt archivist left regional traces through his involvement in the publication of the "Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine" and the "Sources Collection of Baden State History"

bibliography

  • Johann Peter Hebel: The Schwänke of the Rhineland family friend. - Berlin: Mauritius-Verlag, 1922, This new printer follows faithfully d. Stuttgart edition of 1842
  • Johann Peter Hebel: The German family friend. - Breslau: Korn, [1940]
  • Johann Peter Hebel: Calendar Stories. - Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1983, 2nd edition.

literature

  • Friedrich von Weech :  Dambacher, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 715 f.
  • Rainer Fürst: The Rhineland picture man 1827–1833: JJ Dambacher as a lever illustrator; a documentation on the publishing history . Müller, Karlsruhe 1993
  • "Old Caraway" ; Review of Die Schwänke des Rheinländisches Hausfreundes (1922) / by Peter Panter (Kurt Tucholsky) 1926

Single receipts

  1. ^ Friedrich von Weech:  Dambacher, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 715 f.
  2. ^ Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 80.
  3. ↑ Die Weltbühne, July 14, 1925, No. 28, p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Dambacher, Josef Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and high school professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1868
Place of death Rastatt