Tony Johannot

Tony Johannot.

Heinrich Heine 1837

Saint Preux from Rousseau's New Héloise ponders his love. Drawing: Tony Johannot, engraving: Brugnot.

Tony Johannot (born November 9, 1803 in Offenbach am Main , † August 4, 1852 in Paris ) was a French etcher , woodcut artist , lithographer , painter and illustrator .

Life

Tony, real Antoine, Johannot, engraver and painter, was the brother of Charles and Alfred Johannot . He first helped his brother Alfred with the production of coppers and vignettes for Walter Scott , James Fenimore Cooper and Lord Byron and provided illustrations for Molière and Don Quichotte as well as for Rousseau's Julie or Die neue Heloise and Goethe's Werther . In 1831 he also appeared as a painter with romantic genre paintings in the manner of his brother Alfred. In 1834 he painted a large picture for the Duke of Orléans , the death of the Connectables Duguesclin .

On behalf of the king, he painted large depictions of the battles at Rosbecque and Fontenay , the storming of the Méandre pass and Queen Victoria’s visit to Eu for the historical museum in Versailles .

However, he has a greater reputation as a draftsman and engraver, providing countless etchings, copper engravings and woodcuts for magnificent editions. He was especially important as a romantic book illustrator. He created illustrations for around 150 books.

Illustrations (selection)

Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles: History of the Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux . With illustrations after woodcuts by Tony Johannot. Propylaeen, Berlin 1923 ( gallica.bnf.fr , reader.digitale-sammlungen.de - French: Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier Des Grieux . Translated by Franz Leppmann).

literature

Johannot (3) Tony . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 250.
Johannot, Tony . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 69-70 .
Johannot (Tony) . In: Philippe Le Bas (ed.): France dictionnaire encyclopedique . tape 9 . Didot, Paris 1843, p. 723–724 (French, Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Marc Gauer: Histoire et généalogie de la famille Johannot et de ses alliances. (Collection Cahiers Ardéquois.) 2017 (digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Tony Johannot - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about Tony Johannot in the German Digital Library
Antoine Johannot at the Royal Collection Trust: RCIN 913213
Artworks with illustrations by Tony Johannot at catalog.hathitrust.org

Individual evidence

^ Marc Gauer: Histoire et généalogie de la famille Johannot et de ses alliances. 2017, p. 13.
^ Objects on Tony Johannot (illustrations on Werther). museum-digital.de, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
↑ Karl Riha: Critique, Satire, Parody: Collected essays on the letters of the dark men, on Lesage, Lichtenberg, classic parody, Daumier, Herwegh, Kürnberger, Holz, Kraus, Heinrich Mann, Tucholsky, Hausmann, Brecht, Valentin, Schwitters, Hitler- Parody and Henscheid . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-97029-9 , pp. 25 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Johannot, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johannot, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French etcher, woodcut artist, lithographer, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH	4th August 1852
Place of death	Paris

[1] Marc Gauer: Histoire et généalogie de la famille Johannot et de ses alliances. 2017, p. 13.

[2] Objects on Tony Johannot (illustrations on Werther). museum-digital.de, accessed on October 19, 2019 .

[3] Karl Riha: Critique, Satire, Parody: Collected essays on the letters of the dark men, on Lesage, Lichtenberg, classic parody, Daumier, Herwegh, Kürnberger, Holz, Kraus, Heinrich Mann, Tucholsky, Hausmann, Brecht, Valentin, Schwitters, Hitler- Parody and Henscheid . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-97029-9 , pp. 25 ( books.google.de ).