Julius Thaeter

Julius Thaeter after a drawing from 1833

Julius Caesar Thaeter (born January 7, 1804 in Dresden , † November 14, 1870 in Munich ) was a German reproduction engraver .

Thaeter studied at the Dresden Academy and in Nuremberg , changed residence several times between 1826 and 1834, then worked in Munich (1834–41), Weimar (1841–43) and Dresden (1843–49), where he had been a drawing teacher since 1846 the academy was. In 1849 he was appointed to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , but gave up the professorship in 1868 and took over the management of the Kupferstichkabinett .

Thaeter was trained as a draftsman and developed himself further to become a reproduction graphic artist. In Munich he found access to the Nazarene circle and became a carton engraver . The engravings after Peter von Cornelius , Wilhelm von Kaulbach , Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Asmus Carstens and Moritz von Schwind deserve special mention .

In the Dresden district of Übigau and in the Nuremberg district of Mögeldorf , Thäterstrasse was named after him.

literature

• Annemarie Jacoby: Thaeter, Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 576 .
• Julius Thaeter. The life picture of a German engraver. Add. by Anna Thaeter. Frankfurt a. M. 1887 (with correspondence).
• Hermann Arthur Lier :  Thäter, Julius Caesar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 655-659.
• Necrology for Julius Caesar Thaeter. In: Art Chronicle. 6th year 1871, pp. 68–69 digitized, Heidelberg University Library
• Karl Josef Friedrich: Julius Thaeter the engraver of great German artists. Leipzig u. Hamburg 1942.
• Jan Zimmermann: Old Lübeck smiles so honestly in your face. Carl Julius Milde and his "Lübeck ABC". Lübeck 2007 (contains correspondence with Julius Thaeter and a photographic portrait of him)