Otto Speckter
Otto Speckter (born November 9, 1807 in Hamburg ; † April 29, 1871 there ) was a German draftsman and etcher.
life and work
Otto Speckter was the son of Johannes Michael Speckter , whose lithographic establishment he took over in 1834, and the brother of the painter Erwin Speckter . He first made himself known through lithographs (including "The Entry of Christ" by Friedrich Overbeck ) and then devoted himself to the illustration of books through arabesques , vignettes and figure pictures.
He illustrated Luther's Small Catechism , Adolf Böttger's Pilgrimage of the Spirits of Flowers , Klaus Groth's Quickborn , August G. Eberhards Hannchen und die Küchlein , Fritz Reuter's Hanne Nüte , Puss in Boots, etc. His pictures of Wilhelm Hey's 50 Fables for Children were most widely used in Mary Howitt 's English translation as Otto Speckter's Fable Book . Otto Speckter was a founding member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .
Speckter's wife Marie Auguste, b. Bergeest, lived from 1824 to 1899. His son Hans Speckter (1848–1888), who also worked as an illustrator, fell into melancholy and died in the Lübeck sanatorium. According to him, that is Otto Speckter street in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Nord named.
The family grave is located in the Ohlsdorf cemetery between Chapel 2 and Waldstrasse (grid square X 21).
Letters
- 4 letters from Otto Speckter to Dethloff Carl Hinstorff July 1, 1864 to September 30, 1864
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered (April 12 to July 14), Hamburger Kunsthalle
literature
- Veronika Braunfels: Otto Speckter (1807–1871). Illustrator and lithographer in Hamburg (= publications of the Association for Hamburg History; Vol. 39). Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-923356-63-3 .
- Walter Hettche (ed.): Theodor Storm - Otto Speckter, Theodor Storm - Hans Speckter. Correspondence Critical Edition. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-503-03024-7 .
- L. u .: Speckter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 85-88.
- Helmut Börsch-Supan: Speckter, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , Die Bildenden Künstler Vol. 1, edit. by a committee of the Association for Hamburg History . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 243 ( online Hamburg State and University Library).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Speckter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Grimm's fairy tale little brother and sister in illustrations by Otto Speckter
- Rapunzel after Grimm, Münchener Bilderbogen No. 216, colored xylography, 1857 ( Memento from February 1st, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- The Frog King according to Grimm, Munich picture sheet no.193, colored wood print, 1856
Individual evidence
- ↑ See scan at Wikisource
- ↑ Address 1871: “Speckter, Otto, Maler, nst. Fuhlentwiete 80 ”, in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library
- ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Speckter, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1871 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |