Wilhelm Aarland

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Johann Carl Wilhelm Aarland , nickname Wilhelm (* February 16, 1822 in Leipzig ; † 1906 there ) was a German draftsman , wood engraver and owner of xylographic institutes in Leipzig and Kassel .

Marienburg Castle with the former Marienberg Bridge near Nordstemmen ;
old colored woodcut from Die Gartenlaube . 1867
Personalities at the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in Berlin in 1867 (detail), including Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia

Life

Aarland initially worked in his hometown of Leipzig, where he created his own works based on various masters. Later he was the owner of the xylographic institute W. Aarland XI in Kassel, which he used in particular to produce illustrations for the journal Die Gartenlaube .

In the decades between 1860 and 1880, Aarland created, among other things, numerous woodcuts with views of Nuremberg , including typical farmers of the Nuremberg market and a portrait of Hans Sachs .

In addition, Aarland also produced zoological and botanical illustrations with a scientific claim, for example for Alfred Edmund Brehm or Emil Adolf Roßmaessler's work Der Wald. Described to the friends and keepers of the forest .

Aarland also provided woodcuts for works of fiction such as E. Marlitt's Goldelse or lyrical works.

In the year 1898 or 1899, Wilhelm Aarland became a partner in the Xylographic Institute founded in Leipzig in January 1887 by the wood cutter August Müller . The company then traded as Aarland & Müller , but was sold again after a short time to his successor, Otto Pesch .

Signatures

In addition to the signature W. Aarland or Wilhelm Aarland the artist also used XA v. WA or XA v. W. Aarland , which is an abbreviation of Xylographisches Atelier von Wilhelm Aarland .

Exhibitions

  • In June 1986 works by the artist were exhibited in Nuremberg.

literature

  • Aarland, Johann Carl Wilhelm . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 1 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
  • Claus Nissen : The botanical book illustration. Your history and bibliography. 2nd edition, revised and improved impression of the 2-volume first edition, supplemented by a supplement, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1966.
  • Claus Nissen: The botanical book illustration. Your history and bibliography. Volume 3. Supplement, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Eva-Maria Hanebutt-Benz: Studies on German wood engraving in the 19th century (= archive for the history of books. Volume 24, Lfg. 3–6), Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-7657-1262-0 (Table of contents ( page no longer available , search in web archives: bvbr.bib-bvb.de ) PDF).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bvbr.bib-bvb.de
  • Joachim Busse: Internationales Handbuch of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century (= International directory of all XIX. Century painters and sculptors = Guide international de tous les peintres et sculpteurs du XIX. Siècle. ) Busse, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062- 0-4 .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Aarland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Aarland, Johann Carl Wilhelm. In ders .: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. P. 3; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ A b Aarland, Johann Carl Wilhelm (Wilhelm) . In: Monika Estermann, Reinhard Wittmann, Marietta Kleiss (eds.): Archives for the history of the book industry . tape 24: 1983 , 5th delivery. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-7657-1287-6 , Sp. 989–991 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  3. ↑ Emil Adolf Rossmässler: The forest: The friends and carers of the forest portrayed . CF Winter, Leipzig / Heidelberg 1863 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ Torsten Himmel, Ann M. Hentschel, Klaus Hentschel, Katja Haberl: Aarland, Johann Carl Wilhelm in the database on scientific illustrators 1450 - 1950 (DSI) of the Department for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology (GNT) of the University of Stuttgart , accessed on 7 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Compare the information provided by the DNB and cross-references
personal data
SURNAME Aarland, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aarland, Johann Carl Wilhelm; Aarland, JCW; Aarland, XAvW; Aarland, W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, illustrator, wood engraver and owner of xylographic studios in Leipzig and Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1906
Place of death Leipzig