Julius Nisle
Julius Nisle (born April 8, 1812 in Stuttgart, † 1850 in Stuttgart) was a German illustrator and draftsman who created outline drawings as a template for reproductions. He was a popular illustrator in the 19th century, best known for his illustrations of Uhland, Freiligrath, Lenau, Schiller and Goethe.
Life
Julius Nisle was born on April 8, 1812 in Stuttgart, where he lived until his untimely death. His father was the court musician Wilhelm Nüßle. Nisle attended the art school in Stuttgart. In 1833 he was employed by the royal lithographic institute in Stuttgart as one of 22 lithographers, including Adolf Gnauth sen. , with whom he later ran the "Artistic Institute of Gnauth and Nisle".
Nisle is said to have died in 1850. In the Stuttgart address book 1853, however, there is still an entry for the painter "Julius Nißle". In the next available address book in 1855, Nisle himself is no longer listed, but the “painter's wife Julius Nisle”. Nisle was married to Pauline Arnold, who outlived him by nearly two decades and died in 1869.
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Nisle was a popular and busy illustrator, “who in his short life exclusively devoted himself to artistic outline drawing as a template for reproductions, ... as John Flaxman introduced around 1800 as a template for engraving or etching. The image composition is limited to the contours, without shading or plastic modeling, but figures can lie on a partially hatched background. ”Nisle's series of pictures on Schiller, Goethe and Casanova appear like distant forerunners of today's comics. However, they do not reproduce a closed course of action, but are limited to important individual scenes. The speech bubbles replace introductory excerpts from the authors' texts.
In Stuttgart, Nisle operated together with the lithographer Adolf Gnauth sen. (1812–1876) the "Artistic Institute of Gnauth and Nisle". Gnauth also did the stitches for some of Nisle's works. In 1835 the writer and publicist August Lewald founded the magazine "Europa, Chronik der Bildungswelt" in Stuttgart, for which Nisle produced "artistic supplements", including illustrations for Schiller's works and Uhland's poems. Lewald was also the editor of the Uhland outlines and contributed the introduction to the lever outlines.
The 24-year-old artist published his first book illustrations in 1836 in the popular children's song book by Friedrich Güll (with well-known song texts such as “Vom Büblein auf dem Eise”). He made the breakthrough in 1837 with his 27 outlines of Johann Peter Hebel's Alemannic poems. By the time the 3rd edition was published, 10,000 copies of the book had been sold. In 1840 a modified edition with 30 outlines appeared.
From 1838 onwards, Nisle created picture series on classical and contemporary literature: on poems by Ludwig Uhland, Ferdinand Freiligrath and Nikolaus Lenau, on dramas by Friedrich Schiller, on works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, on the youth writings by Christoph von Schmid and on Sebastian Sailer's dialect writings.
Around 1845 Nisle is said to have turned to the illustration of erotic literature. First he is said to have brought out a work with outlines of Boccaccio's Decamerone, which, however, cannot be verified by the library. By the time he died, he created 48 drawings for volumes 1-9 of the German edition of Casanova's memoirs. The drawings were engraved by Adolf Gnauth and colored around 1850 by the Scheible publishing house in Stuttgart under the fictitious Deutscher Kunstverlag publishing house and published in Paris. The revealing stitches naturally caused a sensation. The print edition was almost completely withdrawn from circulation, so that the work must be considered a very rare copy of illustrated erotic literature.
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| 1836 | Manure | Friedrich Güll: Children's home in pictures and songs. With a foreword by Gustav Schwab. Stuttgart: Liesching, 1836, Digitale-sammlungen.de PDF. With 12 lithographs without copyright notice by Adolf Gnauth sen. after drawings by Julius Nisle. |
| 1837 | lever | JP Hebel's allemannische poems. With twenty-seven outlines by Julius Nisle and an introduction by AL Stuttgart: Literatur-Comptoir, 1837, ( books.google.de ). |
| 1837 | lever | Twenty-seven outlines for JP Lever's All-man poems. Freiburg im Breisgau: Kehrer, 1989. Contains: Robert Feger: On Julius Nisle and his work. ISBN 3-923937-51-2 . - Reprinted from #Nisle 1837 . |
| 1838 | Uhland | Album of the boudoirs. Illustrations to Uhland's poems in thirty-six outlines by Julius Nisle. With poetic donations from Alexander Graf von Württemberg. Edited by August Lewald. Stuttgart: Literature Comptoir, 1838. |
| 1838 | Schmid | Outlines for Chr. Schmid's youth writings by Julius Nisle. 30 sheets with explanatory texts. Explanations of the outlines of Chr. Schmid's youth writings. Stuttgart: Scheible, 1838. |
| 1840 | Schiller | Schiller Gallery: Illustrations for Schiller's dramatic masterpieces by Julius Nisle. 64 engravings by Adolf Gnauth [sen.] After drawings by Julius Nisle. Stuttgart: Literatur-Comptoir, [1840], Digitale-sammlungen.de (PDF).
64 illustrations: The Robbers (14), The Bride of Messina (4), William Tell (18), The Maiden of Orleans (12), Turandot (6), Wallenstein (13), Cabale and Love (5). |
| 1840 | Goethe | Outlines of Goethe's works in 92 sheets in steel engraving. With Goethe's portrait after May (Goethe at the age of 29). New edition. After drawings by Julius Nisle. Stuttgart: Becher, around 1840, klassik-stiftung.de . Originally published in 8 issues under the title: Göthe-Gallerie: Stahlstich zu Göthe's masterpieces based on drawings by Julius Nisle. Stuttgart: Literature Comptoir, 1840.
92 illustrations: Poems (20), Faust (28), Hermann and Dorothea (20), Werther (12), Götz (8), Clavigo (4). |
| 1841 | Freiligrath | Outlines for the poems by Ferdinand Freiligrath. 18 sheets in 3 deliveries. Karlsruhe: Gutsch & Rupp, 1841, Digitale-sammlungen.de (PDF). |
| 1841 | Lenau | Outlines for the poems by Nikolaus Lenau. 18 sheets in 3 deliveries. Karlsruhe: Gutsch & Rupp, 1841, Digitale-sammlungen.de (PDF). |
| 1842 | Sailer | Sebastian Sailer: All scripts in Swabian dialects. With dictionary and introduction by KD Haßler , and with [5] pictures by Julius Nisle. Ulm: Stettin, [1842], Digitale-sammlungen.de (PDF). |
| 1845 | lever | Thirty outlines of Hebel's Allannian poems by Julius Nisle. Stuttgart: Becher & Müller, 1845, blb-karlsruhe.de (PDF). |
| 1850 | Casanova | Gallery of the memoirs of the Venetian Jakob Casanova von Seingalt. With an engraved frontispiece (“Aurora Cephalus”), a title vignette and 48 colored engravings by Adolf Gnauth senior. after drawings by Julius Nisle. Paris: German art publisher, posthumously around 1850, all images . |
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literature
- Nisle, Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 484 .
- Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Johann Peter Hebel. Alemannic poems. Illustrated by Julius Nisle and Sophie Reinhard. ( goethezeitportal.de ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Nisle in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
- ↑ #Nisle 1837 , “Der Stadthalter von Schopfheim”, sheet VI ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ The spelling of the family name alternates between Nüßle, Nißle, Nissle and Nisle (Stuttgart address books 1811–1869).
- ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 10. Fleischmann, Munich 1841, p. 245 ( digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de ).
- ↑ Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Busse, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 907.
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Herrmann: Julius Nisle and his Casanova gallery. ( goethezeitportal.de PDF).
- ↑ Adolf Gnauth Sr. was the father of the architect Adolf Gnauth .
- ↑ #Nisle 1838 and #Nisle 1837 .
- ↑ #Nisle 1837 .
- ↑ Robert Feger: To Julius Nisle and his work. Epilogue to #Nisle 1837.2 .
- ↑ #Nisle 1845 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nisle, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nißle, Julius; Nissle, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1850 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |