Karl Ludwig Weisser
Karl Ludwig Weisser (born June 2, 1823 in Unterjettingen , † February 26, 1879 in Stuttgart ) was a German lithographer and art scholar.
Life
Karl Ludwig Weisser (also Weisser) was born in Unterjettingen as a pastor's son. When he lost his father in 1828 he was taken in by his maternal uncle, Pastor Gratianus in Sondelfingen near Reutlingen . Here, as later with his mother, he found his interest in art. Since he did not have enough funds for a career as an artist, he began an apprenticeship with the lithographer G. Küster in Stuttgart in 1837. He was also allowed to study figure and ornament drawing in the trade and art school, as well as drawing from antique and living models. Because of myopia, he gave up his childhood dream of becoming a painter. He immersed himself in the works of the art writers of Johann Joachim Winckelmann , Johann Heinrich Meyer and Karl Schnaase . The art-philosophical studies led him to Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel . After a two-year apprenticeship, he was able to make a living from lithography as an illustrator for the publishing houses Franckh , Becher and Krabbe in Stuttgart. Except for one work, he has not signed his works.
In 1848 he joined the democratic party in Württemberg, whose leaders included his brother Adolf Weisser (1815–1863), editor of The Observer, and his poet friends Hermann Kurz and Ludwig Pfau . When a peacock had to flee, Weisser took over the editing of the political joke paper Eulenspiegel for one year in the summer of 1849 . As the editor in charge, he was sentenced to eight months imprisonment in the fortress in spring 1850 for insulting majesty through a satirical picture. In 1851 he married Karoline Pfeiffer. In 1858 Wilhelm I of Württemberg opened the inspectorate of the royal collection of engravings. After Weisser was rehabilitated by the king, he took over its management, re-cataloged the collection with his wife and expertly expanded it. From 1862 to 1866 (from 1863 as a professor) he was given a teaching position for art history at the art school. From 1866 he taught costume studies with excursions in art history. He wrote down his great knowledge in Die Kunst für alle, a collection of the most excellent painter's engravings, etchings and contour cuts from the 15th to 17th centuries, with special reference to art and cultural history in photo prints by M. Rommel .
He died on February 26, 1879 of pleurisy in Stuttgart.
Works
- 1840–1842 Reinecke Fuchs (oil painting)
- signed illustration by forget-me-not. Paperback dedicated to love, friendship and family life of the German people by Karl Spindler
- 1848 picture atlas for the study of world history
- Heinrich Gottlieb Gutekunst (ed.): The art for everyone, a collection of the finest painter's engravings, etchings and contour cuts from the 15th to 17th centuries, with a special focus on art and cultural history . With explanatory text by Ludwig Weisser and Carl von Lützow. Photograph print by Manfred Rommel. Stuttgart 1880.
literature
- Hermann Kurz: Explanations of Ludwig Weisser's life pictures from classical antiquity . Wilhelm Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1864 ( Google book search ).
- Heinrich Merz: Historical and artistic explanations of L. Weisser's picture atlas on world history . Wilhelm Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1868 ( Google book search ).
- August Wintterlin: Weisser, Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 611-613.
Web links
- Andrea Mantegna and the printmaking . Exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , October 2008 to February 2009, with prints acquired by Weisser (as of June 2, 2010).
- The "diaries" of Marie Kurz, née von Brunnow, transcribed by Hella Mohr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hella Mohr: Die rot 'MARIE and her FINA. Joachim Mohr, June 2002, accessed on June 24, 2009 (Swabian).
- ↑ Ulrich Maier: Der Eulenspiegel, a satirical weekly paper from 1848. (No longer available online.) Günther Ernig, 1993, archived from the original on May 7, 2008 ; Retrieved June 24, 2009 . 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.
- ^ The Story of Reynard the Fox. 1st Art Gallery, accessed June 24, 2009 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weisser, Karl Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weisser, Ludwig; Weisser, Karl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lithographer and art scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unterjettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1879 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |