Vincenz Grüner

Ceres and Arethusa

Vincenz (Vinzenz) Raimund Grüner (* 1771 in Prague ; † August 6, 1832 in Vienna ) was an engraver and writer in Vienna. He made illustrations for German classic editions ( Goethe , Shakespeare , Schiller ). In a diary entry from June 3, 1829, Goethe referred to him as a “ painter and engraver”, and three letters to Grüner have been received from him. He has also written several plays, opera librettos, poems, stories and novels.

Life

Grüner moved to Vienna in the 1790s and entered the Vienna Academy of the Arts as a student in 1796. In 1822 he applied unsuccessfully for the position of teacher of graphic arts at the Art Academy in Prague. Nevertheless, he returned to Prague in 1825 and worked there as an engraver and writer. At the end of the 1820s, however, he returned to Vienna.

Stephan von Keeß's “Representation of Factory and Trade” (1824) praises him for his attempts to erase metal plates (steel) instead of copper.

Works

V. Greener. Title copper to Goethe's Complete Writings . Vol. 5. Vienna 1810

His engravings were first listed in chronological order by Deutsch. His outline engravings for the pirated print of a Goethe edition in Vienna (26 volumes, 1810–1817) contain the first illustration of Faust after the publication of The First Part of Tragedy and the rare illustration of Goethe's further adaptation of the “Magic Flute” . He also made the first pictorial representation of Beethoven's opera Fidelio .

Theseus kills the Minotaur

His earliest works include engravings for Ovid's Metamorphoses (1791), and the latest “Trachten aus Bohemia” (Prague, around 1830). Most of his engravings illustrate his own writings, especially moralizing instructional books for the youth, patriotic stories, puppet shows. Individual sheets show architectural vedutas from Vienna and the surrounding area ("View of Baaden in Austria", "St. Karl's Church in the suburb of Alt-Wieden", "Eichberg Castle"), portraits (for example the botanist Thaddäus Haedke, the Minister Franz von Thugut) , historical and patriotic scenes (monarchs and high officials of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, "Franz I on one day of all estates granted access to SAH person"), folk festivals ("Brigitten-Kirchtag bei Wien 1810") and traditional costumes (34 "Folk costumes from Bohemia ”).

Fonts

The bad boulder, or the shower tower . Franz Haas, Vienna / Prague 1798, OCLC 78411926 . Google books with title copper and vignette.

Friedrich Wilhelm Pfautsch: The twelve months. A festive present for the hard-working and educated youth . Self-published, Vienna 1832, OCLC 177732288 (12 illuminated coppers). 1841 edition of Google books.

The loyal Austrian subjects on the happy arrival of our most gracious monarch in Vienna, after the victorious peace in 1814. Vienna 1814.

literature

Vincenz Grüner . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , p. 378.
Hans Vollmer : Green, Vincenz Raimund . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 131 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Vincenz Grüner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Goethe's works. Weimar edition . tape 41 . Böhlau, Weimar 1907, p. 181 , Abt. IV.22, no. 6282. .
↑ Vincenz Raimund Grüner . In: Karl Goedeke (Ed.): Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources . 2nd Edition. Volume XI / 2: From World Peace to the French Revolution of 1830 . L. Ehlermann, Düsseldorf 1953, p. 175 .
↑ Stephan von Keeß: Representation of the factory and trade in its present condition . Mörschner and Jasper, Vienna 1824, p. 19 .
↑ Otto Erich Deutsch: Goethe and Vinzenz Raimund Grüner. With an unknown letter from Goethe . In: magazine for book lovers . Volume XI (New Series), 1920, p. 190-192 .
↑ Payer v. Thurn: [Addendum. Green] . In: magazine for book lovers . Volume XII (New Series), 1920, col. 75-77 (supplement).
↑ JW Goethe: Goethe's entire writings . Josef Geistiger, Vienna (1810–1817).
↑ Waltraud Maierhofer: The title coppers by Moritz von Schwind, Vincenz Grüner and other Viennese artists for two Goethe work editions . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte . tape LXV , 2018, p. 105-131 ( books.google.de ).
^ RF Arnold: The first illustrator for Goethe's Faust . In: Chronicle of the Viennese Goethe Association . tape 34 , 1924, pp. 31-33 .
↑ Vincenz Grüner . With ill. In: Yearbook of the Vienna Goethe Association . tape 102 . Vienna 1999, p. 64 .
^ "Fidelio" . In: JF Castelli (ed.): Wiener Hof-Theater paperback on the year . JB Wallishaußer, Vienna 1815, digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/6690119/ft/bsb10573622?page=19 .
^ Ovid Metamorphoses, published in copper and with the necessary explanations by a society. 3 vols. With engravings by Stöber, Antropp, Ponheimer, Grüner et al. Alberti, Vienna 1791, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00074246-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Greener, Vincenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Greener, Vincent; Grüner, Vincenz Raimund; Grüner, Vinzenz Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Engraver and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1771
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1832
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Goethe's works. Weimar edition . tape 41 . Böhlau, Weimar 1907, p. 181 , Abt. IV.22, no. 6282. .

[2] Vincenz Raimund Grüner . In: Karl Goedeke (Ed.): Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources . 2nd Edition. Volume XI / 2: From World Peace to the French Revolution of 1830 . L. Ehlermann, Düsseldorf 1953, p. 175 .

[3] Stephan von Keeß: Representation of the factory and trade in its present condition . Mörschner and Jasper, Vienna 1824, p. 19 .

[4] Otto Erich Deutsch: Goethe and Vinzenz Raimund Grüner. With an unknown letter from Goethe . In: magazine for book lovers . Volume XI (New Series), 1920, p. 190-192 .

[5] Payer v. Thurn: [Addendum. Green] . In: magazine for book lovers . Volume XII (New Series), 1920, col. 75-77 (supplement).

[6] JW Goethe: Goethe's entire writings . Josef Geistiger, Vienna (1810–1817).

[7] Waltraud Maierhofer: The title coppers by Moritz von Schwind, Vincenz Grüner and other Viennese artists for two Goethe work editions . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte . tape LXV , 2018, p. 105-131 ( books.google.de ).

[8] RF Arnold: The first illustrator for Goethe's Faust . In: Chronicle of the Viennese Goethe Association . tape 34 , 1924, pp. 31-33 .

[9] Vincenz Grüner . With ill. In: Yearbook of the Vienna Goethe Association . tape 102 . Vienna 1999, p. 64 .

[10] "Fidelio" . In: JF Castelli (ed.): Wiener Hof-Theater paperback on the year . JB Wallishaußer, Vienna 1815, digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/6690119/ft/bsb10573622?page=19 .

[11] Ovid Metamorphoses, published in copper and with the necessary explanations by a society. 3 vols. With engravings by Stöber, Antropp, Ponheimer, Grüner et al. Alberti, Vienna 1791, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00074246-2 .