Joseph Heigel

This article is about the painter and lithographer Joseph Heigel. For other people see Josef Heigl .

Joseph Heigel (* 1780 in Munich , † 1837 in Paris ) was a German miniature painter and lithographer .

Life

Joseph Heigel came from a family of actors. His father was the court actor Joseph Franz Heigel (1752–1811), and his brothers Caesar Max (1783–1847), Karl and Klemens August Heigel (1792–1849) also worked as actors.

In 1795 there was a possible first stay in Paris for training in the studio of the miniature painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey , before 1797 until 1806 he was trained at the Munich Art Academy . Heigel worked as a copier in the Munich Hofgarten Gallery (histories, portraits). Around 1806-1819 there was a second stay in Paris and possibly the continuation of the training in Isabey's studio. He received his first commissions as a miniature painter and copyist. In 1819 he returned to Munich, where he worked as a miniature painter at court. Between 1819 and 1828 Heigel alternated between Germany and Paris, in 1828 he traveled to Berlin , then via Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt back to Paris, where he then settled and stayed there permanently.

His son Franz Napoleon Heigel (1813–1888) also worked as a painter.

Works

Lola Montez , miniature by Joseph Heigel, ca.1837

• Portrait of Emperor Napoleon, 1806, whereabouts unknown (TB)
• Half-length portrait without hands, almost from the front. Brown hair and whiskers, gray-blue eyes. Parricide and white collar, white vest, dark blue skirt. Background gray-green, 1815, ivory, 10.5 × 7.5 cm (oval), private collection, Munich (Lemoine-Bouchard 2008; Schidlof 1964, p. 355)
• Herr im Blaue Skirt, 1817, watercolor and gouache on ivory, 9.8 × 7.8 cm (oval), metal frame in a profiled wooden panel with metal ornaments, Tansey Collection, Munich (cat. Celle 2002, p. 154f.)
• Lady in a White Dress with a Red Cashmere Shawl, 1817, watercolor and gouache on ivory, 8.9 × 7.3 cm (oval), metal frame in a profiled wooden panel with metal ornaments, Tansey Collection, Munich (Cat.Celle 2002, p. 156f.)
• Un cadre de miniatures, whereabouts unknown (Salon 1817, No. 411)

literature

• Sarah Salomon: Joseph Heigel . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 103-104 ( limited preview in the Google book search).