Julius Greed

Julius Giere (* 1807 ; † 1880 ) was a German court - lithographer , photographer , draftsman , painter and publisher in Hanover in what was then the Kingdom of Hanover .

life and work

“ Grossen Buchholz after the bride of the wind ” from September 17, 1830; Lithograph "To the best of the poor" by Giere after Johann Heinrich Ramberg

Family of George V, King of Hanover. Lithograph by Julius Giere , printed in the Julius Giere court lithography company in Hanover.

Revers of a carte de visite produced by Giere

Julius Giere (Carl Ludolph Julius Giere) was a son of the Hanoverian miniature painter and copperplate engraver in mezzotint Johann Christoph Franz Giere , born in Hamburg on August 17, 1774, died in Hanover on March 17, 1825. Julius Giere was in Hanover by 1831 at the latest active, lived as a court stone printer in the Burgstrasse in Hanover in 1842 and ran the court stone printer Julius Giere , which was documented from 1831 .

The court lithographic printer Julius Giere was known for the production of portraits of actors, musicians, writers and members of the high nobility and the royal house of Hanover . Julius Giere used external templates or his own drawings and drafts. Julius Giere also created and published site views, site plans, graphics for current occasions and reproductions of historical paintings. He published lithographs for the Kunstverein Hannover , which were widely used.

He was one of the first to use the daguerreotype as a new method of photography and ran the Photographic Art Institute Julius Giere at Sophienstrasse 5, " opposite the museum (for art and science, today Künstlerhaus Hannover )."

Giere was friends with the Hanoverian painter Edmund Koken .

literature

• Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. new edition, Volume 4, Librairie Gründ 1966, p. 240.
• H. Döpke: Questions to an old portrait of Julius Giere. In: home country. Volume 6, 1993, p. 165.
• Hanover history sheets . Volume XVIII, 1915, pp. 323, 407 ff., XIX 150, 158.
• DJ Leister: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. Volume 26, 1954, pp. 149-173.
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : Giere, I. In: New general artist lexicon. Volume V: Gallimberti – Haslöhl. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837, p. 160 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
• Osnabrück sculptor and painter of the 18th and 19th centuries. Osnabrück 1950.
• Dankmar Trier: Greed, Julius . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 53, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22793-6 , p. 396 f.
• Singer: visual artists. Volume XIV, 1936.
• Julius G. In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 2–3 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - (in the entry on Giere, Joh. Christoph Franz )
• Weigel's art catalog. Leipzig 1838–1866, Volume V, Reg. P. 150.

See also

• List of Hanoverian purveyors to the court

Web links

Commons : Julius Giere  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The alternative names Gieri and Giers were created by mistake.
2. ↑ Source: Address book of the city of Hanover, 1842, page 175. Quoted from: Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB) 
3. ↑ see back of the Carte de visite
4. ↑ Source: Andreas-Andrew Bornemann (private) on postkarten-archiv.de Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Hugo Thielen : Koken, Johann Edmund Gottfried. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 207 ( books.google.de ).