Oscar Pletsch

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Oscar Pletsch (also Oskar Pletsch , born March 26, 1830 in Berlin , † January 12, 1888 in Niederlößnitz , today Radebeul ) was a German painter and illustrator.

Oskar Pletsch, steel engraving by Veit Froer , around 1888
Golden Children's World, signed by Pletsch

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Oscar Pletsch was born in 1830 in poor circumstances as the son of a drawing teacher and lithographer in Berlin . He studied from 1846 to 1850 in Dresden at the art academy with Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann . Pletsch worked in Dresden until 1855, and then returned to Berlin by 1871. During this time he developed his genre painting , which he trained at Ludwig Richter, with motifs from everyday and family life. At an early age he devoted himself to illustration, mostly depicting children, and woodcut became the preferred technique.

He achieved his first great success in 1860 with the book Die Kinderstube in 36 Bilder , from then until 1881 a children's book by him was published annually, mostly by the Alphons Dürr publishing house in Leipzig. Pletsch became one of the most important and popular children's book illustrators of the 19th century, with publications also in England, France, Sweden and the USA. As part of the edition: Pictures on German History , published by CC Meinhold & Söhne Verlag , Dresden, he drew the lithograph The Battle of Fehrbellin . At the height of his success, Pletsch moved to Niederlößnitz in 1872 , where he lived and worked until his death after a long and serious illness in 1888, where the Ziller brothers lived and worked at Borstrasse 57. Pletsch is buried in the Radebeul-West cemetery.

Oscar Pletsch was awarded the title of professor by the King of Saxony in 1877.

literature

Web links

Commons : Oscar Pletsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fedor Bochow: Pletsch, Oscar (Oskar) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  2. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 152 .
personal data
SURNAME Pletsch, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pletsch, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1888
Place of death Niederloessnitz