Leo Schöninger

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Leo Schöninger (born January 21, 1811 in Weil der Stadt , † December 20, 1879 in Munich ) was a German painter, lithographer and graphic artist.

Life

Mathilde Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis
Lithograph, approx. 1839; after a painting by Joseph Karl Stieler

Leo Schöninger was born the twelfth child of a cloth maker.

Creating art

At the age of 14 he began his training in Stuttgart at the lithographic art institute of the brothers Melchior and Sulpiz Boisserée and came to Munich with the same in 1828. In 1835 he studied painting at the Kgl. Academy of Fine Arts Munich . As a painter, he mainly devoted himself to genre and portrait painting, but had to postpone painting in favor of lithography.

Schöninger and Joseph Anton Freymann, who was also born in Weil der Stadt , made a special contribution in the field of galvanography, a steeling manner for copper plates. From 1842 they perfected the galvanic reproduction methods, which had been further developed by Franz von Kobell , by replacing the paint used up until then with chemical chalk. With this process, with print runs of up to 150,000 sheets, they reproduced numerous paintings by old masters and contemporary artists, many art sheets also together with Johann Nepomuk Strixner .

On December 7, 1869 he sold his Leo Schöninger's Kunstverlag at Schwanthalerstraße 76 to the Munich book and art dealer Franz Reichardt.

Schöninger's body was buried in the Altes Südfriedhof ; the grave has already been leveled.

family

On September 22, 1840 Schöninger married the doctor's daughter Anna Beer, a granddaughter of the Tyrolean banker Joseph Nockher, with whom he had children in the Frauenkirche in Munich . The son Gottfried Schöninger, through marriage, acquired the university printing company J. G Weiss' book printing company in Munich's Residenzstrasse 7, which was run in the second generation by Johann Georg Weiß († 1874) after his death. He later also served as the Romanian consul general in Munich.

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 15: Santi, Antonio – Schoute, Jan. Verlag von EA Fleischmann, 1845, pp. 473–475 ( books.google.de ).
  • Andreas Andresen : Handbook for engraving collectors or lexicon of engravers, painter-etchers and form cutters of all countries and schools according to their most valued sheets and works. 2nd volume, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1873, p. 467 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • Joseph Maillinger : Picture chronicle of the royal capital and residence of Munich. Directory of a collection of graphic arts products on the local, cultural and art history of the Bavarian capitals from the 15th to the 19th century. Volume 2, Verlag der Montmorillon's Kunsthandlung, Munich 1876, p. 183; supplemented in volume 4 from 1886.
  • Obituary in the report of the Munich Art Association for the year 1879 , Munich Art Association , Munich 1880, p. 77 f.
  • Nicer, Leo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 230 .
  • Joseph de Hesselle: The black ones , with its hundred-year-old only now discovered interesting secrets in the brand image. A research study. Munich 1949 (reprint 1989), p. 27 ff.
  • Schöninger, Leo. In: Horst Ludwig: Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th century. Vol. 4 Saffer - Zwengauer . Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 90.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathilde Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis (1816–1886), born Princess Mathilde Sophie zu Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingern-Spielberg, second wife of Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis
  2. ↑ DNB 1107401992
  3. ^ Maximilian Joseph Hufnagel: Famous dead in the southern cemetery in Munich. 500 witnesses to Munich's cultural, intellectual and political life in the 19th century. Zeke Verlag, 1983, p. 191.
  4. ↑ Population display. In: Royal Bavarian Police Gazette of Munich. No. 77, September 30, 1840.
  5. ↑ Helmuth Rehm: My Munich ancestors. Bavarian State Association for Family Studies V. (BLF), District Group Upper Bavaria, 2007.
  6. ↑ Notice. From the Royal Commercial Court of Munich I. d. I. Munich, April 24, 1874. In: Bayerische Handelszeitung. 4th year, no.174, May 2, 1874.
  7. ^ Gottfried Schöninger, book printer owner and consul general (Romania). In: Joseph de Hesselle: The black ones, with its hundred year old only now discovered interesting secrets in the brand image. A research study. Reprint 1989, Fig. 16 a.
personal data
SURNAME Schöninger, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Because of the city
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1879
Place of death Munich