Josef Weisz

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Josef Weisz (born August 27, 1894 in Munich , † 1969 in Planegg ) was a wood cutter and book illustrator .

Life

Josef Weisz was born in Munich in 1894 as the son of master tailor Josef Weiss. In 1909 he began an apprenticeship as a goldsmith . Under pressure from his father, he becomes an apprentice tailor. From 1913 to 1916 Weisz was a student of Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke at the Munich School of Applied Arts in the writing and book trade.

From 1916 to 1918 Weisz did front-line service in the First World War . The war sketchbook was also created here , an art folder with 195 drawings of landscapes and people in Russia, France and Belgium. The Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig exhibited his expressionist works as early as the 1920s . Weisz's work was increasingly in demand for illustration of books. He created 35 lithographs for Goethe's Faust. In 1932 the Klingspor brothers reprinted Goethe's “Metamorphosis of Plants” in Offenbach, and Josef Weisz created twelve woodcuts as an appendix.

During his life, Weisz was mainly concerned with depicting plants. In his 1950s he also devoted himself to the animal world. Illustrations were created for the books “Small Aquarium” (1950), “Flowers and Animals” (1951) and “Heiteres Tierbuch” (1952), which was recognized as one of the most beautiful books of 1952.

Exhibitions

  • 1943: Exhibition of Young Art in the German Empire in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
  • 1956: Städtische Galerie Munich: special exhibition
  • 1957: Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
  • 1956: “The graphic cycle. From Max Klinger to the present. A contribution to the development of German graphics from 1880 to 1955. ”, German Academy of the Arts Berlin
  • 1995: Armory of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel: Weltanschauung in woodcut
  • 1996: Berlin State Library: Weltanschauung in woodcut
  • 2002: Gutenberg Museum Mainz: The wood cutter Josef Weisz

Awards

estate

The written estate is in the German Art Archive in the Germanic National Museum .

The majority of the graphic estate is in the Gutenberg Museum , Mainz.

literature

  • White, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 103 .
  • Sybille Kloos and Johannes Pommeranz: From the »War Sketchbook« to »Kastilias Quell«. A studio exhibition with works by Josef Weisz (1894-1969) , in: monats anzeiger. Museums and exhibitions in Nuremberg , June 2003, pp. 2–3.
  • F Carlo Schmid, Dunja Schneider, Stefan Soltek : From the apocalypse to the alpine flower: The wood cutter Josef Weisz 1894-1969 , publisher: Stadt Mainz Gutenberg-Museum, 2002, ISBN 3980550656 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Brahms in Tutzing
  2. ↑ month gazette - June 2003 number 267 ( Memento of January 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Weisz, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death Planegg