Julius Geissler

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Julius Geißler (full name Freund August Julius Geißler ; Freund August Julius Geisler and Julius L. Geissler ; born April 30, 1822 in Göttingen ; † October 10, 1904 in Hanover ) was a princely Lippe court painter , lithographer and photographer .

Life

Julius Geißler was born during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the Göttingen mineralogist August Geißler from Leipzig, a brother of the engraver Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler . Julius was the younger brother of the painter, graphic artist and writer Robert Geißler . The maternal grandfather was the painter and university engraver Heinrich Schwenterley , who also worked in Göttingen .

Moritz Leopold Petri
Pencil drawing by Geissler, around 1850; Lippe State Library

Geißler initially learned from Heinrich Grape , then from Adolf Ehrhardt in Dresden . As a result, he went on several study trips and then settled in Hamburg , where he worked as a busy portrait painter. There he mainly painted miniatures and watercolors , more rarely chalk drawings , mostly in profile, pieces that were in great demand. In doing so, he probably developed less of a pronounced artistic ambition, but mainly produced for mass demand. The high demand for his aptly similar portraits also resulted from Geißler's offer of one Prussian thaler per piece at the time .

In 1855 Geißler opened a photographic studio in Hamburg . He became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association .

Occasionally he created lithographs based on his own photographs, for example of the 1859 parade of the Schiller celebrations on the occasion of Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday .

“On the Bleichenbrücke . Drawn from nature by Julius Geißler ”;
The Gazebo , 1862

From around 1861 Geissler worked for a few years in Nuremberg, where he worked temporarily with his brother Rudolf Geissler. For example, the brothers created the lithograph Singer Festival procession in Nuremberg on July 22, 1861 .

Later he headed the Litographische Kunstanstalt JG Bach in Leipzig for a “long time” .

After living in the town of Stolberg in the southern Harz for a while , Julius Geißler finally moved to Hanover, where he died on October 10, 1904.

Geißler's works can be found, for example, in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and other museums in the city of Nuremberg (MSTN), in particular woodcuts and lithographs from the period from 1865 to around 1869.

literature

In addition to notes from the Hamburg State Archives and the artist's nephews, Wilhelm and Paul Geißler, and from CG Heise, the following printed works can be found:

  • Geisler, friend of August Julius . In: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , edited by the Association for Hamburg History , Vol. 1, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 84 ( digitized version )
  • Ernst Zimmermann : History of the lithography in Hamburg. Festschrift for the secular celebration of the invention of lithography in Hamburg, July 1896, ed. written by the committee for the exhibition and festschrift, and on its behalf ... , Hamburg: Lütcke & Wulff; 1896, p. 54
  • Geisler, friend of August Julius . In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, pp. 43–44 ( digitized version )
  • Wilhelm Weimar : The daguerreotype in Hamburg . In: Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions , Volume XXXII (1914), Supplement 1 (1915), pp. 41, 59 ( digitized version )
  • Artistic estate of the Geißler family of illustrators from the possession of Marie Berg (= auction catalog 23 Heilbron , Berlin February 25, 1913), nos. 26–28, 49, 185
  • Catalog for the exhibition of German art of the 19th century , Leipzig, November – December 1915
  • Catalog for the exhibition portrait miniatures , Hanover 1918
  • Geissler, Julius (friend of August Julius) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 353 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Maike Bruhns : Geissler, (friend August) Julius . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 143

Web links

Commons : Julius Geißler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Geißler, Freund August Julius , in ders .: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century , Volume 1: A – G , Munich: KG Saur Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 (for all volumes), p. 459; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Geisler, friend August Julius . In: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , edited by the Association for Hamburg History , Vol. 1, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 84 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Alheidis von Rohr : Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hanover from the 16th century to 2000 , book accompanying the exhibition of the same name (= Writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover, issue No. 17) Hanover 2000, ISBN 3-910073-18-2 , p. 114
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Geissler, Julius (friend August Julius) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 353-354 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geissler, friend August Julius (full name); Geissler, Julius L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, portraitist, draftsman, lithographer and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1904
Place of death Hanover