Karl Jäger (painter)

Karl Jäger , also Carl or K. Jaeger or Jäger (born October 17, 1833 in Nuremberg , † December 5, 1887 ibid), was an etcher , genre , history and portrait painter. He taught drawing at the School of Applied Arts Nuremberg to act and antiquity .


Lithograph surprise		Etching memory of the Nuremberg Schiller Celebration in 1859

Portrait session of Emperor Maximilian in the workshop of Albrecht Dürer (1882–86)

Career

Jäger was the illegitimate son of the porcelain painter Johann Jäger. He was a student of Johann Andreas Engelhard and at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts with Albert Christoph Reindel and August von Kreling . Later he also studied at the Munich Academy .

In 1859 he created the etching Memory of the Nuremberg Schiller Celebration in 1859 . In 1861, on the occasion of the German Singers' Association in Nuremberg, he painted depictions of the heyday of Nuremberg on Pirckheimer's house and on the Albrecht Dürer house of Dürer's birth. From 1865 Jäger worked with A. Müller and Th. Pixis on the illustrations for Schiller's works , 6 chalk boxes, published by Friedrich Bruckmann , Munich. For the same publisher in 1870/71 he created, as grisaille paintings, twelve half-length portraits by German composers (published as Galerie deutscher Tondichter , with text by E. Hanslick and cover drawings and vignettes by F. Wanderer), as well as 7 half-length portrait paintings by German poets and 12 by German emperors.

From 1882 to 1886 he painted his main work for the Nuremberg town hall , a portrait session in Albrecht Dürer's workshop .

Jäger had been married to Maria Kunigunde Margaretha (née Bauer, † 1872) since April 9, 1860, and the couple had a son. His wife was the sister of the engraver Johann Tobias Bauer (1827-1883). He was an honorary member of the Free German Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main and received the Order of St. Michael and the gold medal for art and science. He was buried on December 7, 1887 in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg.

Works (selection)

Among other things, he made portraits of these 12 composers:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Joseph Haydn

literature

Hunter, Karl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 606-607 ( archive.org ).
Hunter, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 327 .
Manfred H. Grieb: Jäger, Johann Carl (Karl) . In: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , pp. 725-726 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Karl Jäger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Goethezeitportal with a biography of Jaeger

Individual evidence

^ Manfred H. Grieb: Jäger, Johann Carl (Karl) . In: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , pp. 725-726 ( books.google.de ).
^ Gallery of German sound poets . Half-length pictures based on original paintings by Prof. Carl Jäger. With biographical text by Dr. Ed. Hanslick. 2nd Edition. Friedrich Bruckmann, Munich / Berlin 1875 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Hunter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jäger, Johann Carl (full name); Jäger, K .; Hunter, Carl; Hunter, C .; Jaeger, Karl; Jaeger, K .; Jaeger, Carl; Jaeger, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German etcher, painter and teacher at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	December 5, 1887
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Manfred H. Grieb: Jäger, Johann Carl (Karl) . In: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , pp. 725-726 ( books.google.de ).

[2] Gallery of German sound poets . Half-length pictures based on original paintings by Prof. Carl Jäger. With biographical text by Dr. Ed. Hanslick. 2nd Edition. Friedrich Bruckmann, Munich / Berlin 1875 ( books.google.de ).