Robert Geissler

Franz Wilhelm Robert Geißler (also Geissler ; born February 7, 1819 in Göttingen ; † October 7, 1893 in Groß Schneen ) was a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist , writer, lithographer and journalist.

Life

family

Robert Geißler was born in Göttingen at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the Leipzig mineralogist August Geißler and brother of Julius Geißler . He himself later became the father of Wilhelm Geißler .

Career

Robert Geißler began his training at the institute for porcelain painting with Heinrich Friedrich Wedemeyer in Göttingen . He then studied at the Kassel Art Academy . Later he stayed in Celle and Hanover .

In the period from 1855 to 1866, Geissler worked as a draftsman, xylograph and lithographer in Hamburg and Bremen . Geissler also worked as a "woodcut draftsman" for the Illustrirte Zeitung published in Leipzig .

Geissler also worked as an author and editor of travel guides and magazines. He published albums with lithographs from Hamburg , Stralsund , Stettin , Greifswald and Stuttgart . Robert Geißler also wrote reports from the Paris World Exhibition in 1867 , plays and novellas, and worked as a journalist for all Göttingen newspapers.

Works

Hamburg. A guide to the city and its surroundings. Lübeck 1861
The Weser. A description in words and pictures. Göttingen 1863/64
Bremen. A guide to the city and its surroundings. Bremen 1865
Greifswald album. Reminder sheets. Greifswald 1869
12 views of Fulda and the Rhön. Fulda, approx. 1880
Album by Glogau. Reminder sheets. Glogau 1880
Album from Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1870
The monk Berlin. Speyer & Peters, 1886

gallery

and display information about the image

Wood engraving , dated and signed 1866, subtitled by the Illustrirten Zeitung “View of Hanover . Original drawing by R. Geißler ”; old colored

View of Neisse
Synagogue in Wroclaw
State Hospital Göttingen
Weender Strasse Göttingen
View of Koenigstrasse Stuttgart
The synagogue in Stuttgart, destroyed in 1938

literature

"Geißler, Franz Wilhelm Robert", in: Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of the Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present . Zickfeldt, Osterwieck, Harz 1891, p. 75 ( digitized version ).
Geissler, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 354–355 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 6 (1978), Column 167f.
Christiane Kerrutt: Painting and graphics in the Emsland 1860-1960 (= Emsland - area in the north-west volume 17). Emsländischer Heimatbund, Sögel 2001, ISBN 3-88077-085-9 , pp. 55–56.
Eckhardt Jäger: Robert Geissler (1819-1893). An almost forgotten draftsman of 1500 vedute. In: Volker Schimpff, Wieland Führ (ed.): Historia in Museo. Festschrift for Frank-Dietrich Jacob's 65th birthday . Langenweißbach 2004, pp. 225-241.
Geissler, Robert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Geissler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Robert Geissler - Sources and full texts

Geissler, Robert (1819–1893) in the Saxonia Gallery

Individual evidence

↑ n.v . : Geissler, Robert Franz Wilhelm in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of November 14, 2008, last accessed on January 14, 2019
↑ ^a ^b Geissler, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 354–355 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
↑ Born on February 7th, 1829 according to the Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers .

personal data
SURNAME	Geissler, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flagellants; Franz Wilhelm Robert (full name); Geissler, Robert Franz Wilhelm (full name); Geissler, R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman, graphic artist, writer, editor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1893
Place of death	Big snow

[1] .v . : Geissler, Robert Franz Wilhelm in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of November 14, 2008, last accessed on January 14, 2019

[ThB-2] Geissler, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 354–355 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[3] Born on February 7th, 1829 according to the Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers .