Joseph Kaspar Correggio

Joseph Kaspar Correggio (also: Josef Correggio ; born August 3, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 10, 1962 ibid) was a German painter and illustrator.

Correggio signed his works with “Jos. Correggio ”. His full birth name is Joseph Kaspar Correggio, sometimes the name is also given in contemporary literature as Josef Correggio. An exhibition catalog from 1911 mentions both spellings. Westermannsmonthshefte uses the spelling Josef Correggio in a mention for the 90th.

life and work

Joseph Correggio was already a 12-year-old student of Heinrich Hasselhorst at the Städelschule , in 1887 he moved to Munich and studied from October 13, 1888 at the academy under Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez .

Then he moved back to Frankfurt. There he began as a horse and portrait painter. Allegedly he should have created over 1000 portraits. Soon he got lucrative orders for the painting of buildings, especially of private houses along the Kaiserstraße, as well as large paintings for casinos and barracks, including the order for work on the town hall extension and the council cellar (1904/05), but also the high altar of the Dreikönigskirche . In 1911 Correggio was a member of the jury of the annual exhibition of Frankfurt artists and exhibited a painting called “Bei der Meute”. He designed numerous ceramics for Waechtersbacher Keramik .

Ratskeller

Correggio's most famous work is the Ratskeller (which has largely been preserved to this day). He got his first order as the winner of a competition. Before that, he had furnished restaurants and carried out work in the town hall. Work on the Ratskeller began in 1905/1905. A second phase was carried out in 1924/1925. Due to the popularity of the "Rittersgründer Bergkapelle", he dedicated a fresco to it, which also depicts its director Wilhelm Barthel ("Fat Fritz").

Correggio also designed the restaurant's wine list.

The Ratskeller and the Cafe Buerose advertised on postcards with the painting by Correggio.

Family and home

He was married to the artist Katharina Correggio-Neidlinger, whom he had met while studying in Munich. In addition to their artistic work, they founded the artist aid organization "Light & Life".

They lived together at Arndtstrasse 10 in Frankfurt's posh Westend . The house was damaged in the war in 1945 and the family moved into it again in 1960 after extensive restoration. It was not until 2010 that windows that were structured significantly different from the original were installed, thus changing the appearance of the late classicist house. In the garden there are still some sculptures from the artist's possession.

Works

Grave V 157 Becker in the Frankfurt main cemetery. The relief comes from Jos. Correggio.

Paintings and drawings

• Rhenish blacksmiths
• Work horses, 1909
• Death ride from Mars la-Tour
• Huntsmen on horseback
• Farriers, Städel Museum
• Christmas tree market on the Römerberg / Am Rententurm / Old Bridge to the cathedral
• Battery of the Field Artillery Regiment 63, (formerly Historisches Museum Frankfurt, missing since 1945)
• Cemetery of the 89s in the Caures forest in front of Verdun (chalk drawing), Frankfurt Historical Museum
• Portrait (painting) Heino Riese for the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation.
• Portrait (ink drawing) Emil Claar, University of Frankfurt
• Painting for the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt for Prince Albert, after 1945 in the residence in Regensburg.
• Schäfer, ballroom of the Masonic Lodge for Unity, Frankfurt Kaiserstraße
• Rennplatz Iffezheim, oil on canvas, 61 cm × 80 cm, 1943

Illustrations

• Frankfurt School Primer (illustrations and graphics)
• Wine list for the Ratskeller Frankfurt
• Poster "Competition of German Male Choirs", 1909 (a copy in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt)
• Postcard “balloon ride” to the ILA, 1912
• Advertising stamps, e.g. B. for the photography exhibition in 1913
• Book “Original stone drawings by the Frankfurt painter Jos. Correggio: In memory of Germany's great times ”, 1916
• Decorative plate "Römerberg Festival", Frankfurt 1935 (a copy in the Germanic National Museum)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Klötzer: Frankfurter Biographie: Vol. A – L , p. 138.
2. ↑ Entry in the matriculation database .
3. ↑ publications.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/11823/1911.pdf
4. ↑ Eberhard Traum: In love with detail: created by designers from different eras, p. 85.
5. ↑ Friedel Keim: The big book of the trumpet, p. 235.
6. ↑ [1]
7. ↑ Städel Inv. 601, [2] .
8. ↑ [3] .
9. ↑ [4] .
10. ^ Fried Lübbecke: The Palais Thurn and Taxis in Frankfurt am Main . 1955, p. 276.
11. ↑ [5]
12. ↑ http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/BA4053

literature

• -y : Correggio, Joseph Kaspar . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 466 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 137 .
• Dankmar Trier: Correggio, Joseph (Josef; Joseph Kaspar) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 315 Error in expression: Unrecognized word “pagey” .