Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch

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Tableau on the history of the Dresden Elbe Bridge ( Augustus Bridge ), lithograph by Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch, 1848.

Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch (born June 3, 1805 in Stuttgart , † January 3, 1864 in Stuttgart) was a German lithographer . He worked as a lithographer in Dresden for two decades and from 1850 ran a lithographic institute in Stuttgart.

Life

Advertisement of the takeover of the business by Otto Baisch, January 20, 1864.

Wilhelm Heinrich Gottlieb Baisch was born on June 3, 1805 in Stuttgart as the son of the master carpenter and mechanic Friedrich Heinrich Baisch (1782 – around 1861), who from 1817 lived in his own house at Judenstrasse 13. Baisch completed an apprenticeship at the lithography publisher FG Schulz in Stuttgart. In the 1830s and 1840s he worked in the CC Meinhold court printing company in Dresden. As the artistic director of the print shop, he contributed a lot to the development of color printing. He last lived at Annengasse 19 in 1848 and 1849.

After a 26-year absence, he returned to Stuttgart in 1852 and founded a lithographic institute there, in which he preferred color lithography. In the address books he is mentioned in 1853 as a mechanic, from 1855 as a lithographer and lithographer owner. He lived at Hauptstätter Strasse 91 from 1855 to 1857, and from 1858 in his own house at Neckarstrasse 34b.

Baisch married a daughter of the art collector JC Bögehold, royal Saxon war ministerial registrar in Dresden, around 1840. The marriage resulted in two sons: the writer and editor of the magazine " Über Land und Meer " Otto Baisch (1840-1892) and the painter Hermann Baisch (1846-1894).

Baisch died at the age of 58 on January 3rd, 1864 in Stuttgart, his wife died around 1870. After the death of his father, his son Otto Baisch continued the lithographic establishment. In 1874 he sold the house at Neckarstrasse 34b. The lithographic establishment was taken over by Gottlieb Ebenhusen, who continued it at a different address under the name of "Gottlieb Ebenhusen formerly Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch".

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Baisch created lithographs with portraits, pieces of fruit and flowers, animals and landscapes.

Portraits

Baisch portrayed many contemporaries and historical persons, for example Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora, Christoph Martin Wieland, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Samuel Hahnemann, Wilhelm Herschel, Johann Gottfried Herder, Queen Victoria of England and King Anton of Saxony.

Single sheets

  • Tableau on the history of the Dresden Elbe Bridge ( Augustus Bridge ), 1848.

Book illustrations

Since lithographers were often not listed in book titles in the 19th century, their contributions can usually only be determined if they are appropriately designated. The following list presents two examples of Baisch's book illustrations.

  • Friedrich Koch: The snakes of Württemberg: for agricultural advanced training and evening schools, secondary schools, Latin and elementary schools. Stuttgart: Metzler 1862, pdf . - 6 color plates "drawn from nature, lithographed and printed with colors by Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch Stuttgart": after page 19.
  • Franz Lubojatzky: Centennial Chronicle or: the fate of the Saxon people from 1750 to 1850; a memorial book for families of all ethnic groups in the Sachsenlande. Löbau: JG Walde, 1850, pdf . - With 16 color plates, 6 of them by Baisch, "Oil color printing of the lithographic establishment by Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch, Stuttgart" (oil color printing = color lithography): after page 10, 12, 36, 48, 112, 124. See also: Color lithographs by Baisch in der Centennial Chronicle .

literature

life and work

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  • Werner Fleischhauer : The portrait in Württemberg: 1760-1860; History, artists and culture. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1939, page 185.
  • Claus Nissen: The zoological book illustration: its bibliography and history. Volume 1: Bibliography. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1969, number 1508, page 158, number 2255, page 231.
  • Claus Nissen: The zoological book illustration: its bibliography and history. Volume 2: History. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1978, page 515.
  • R. Arnim Winkler: The early days of German lithography: catalog of the prints 1796-1821. Munich: Prestel, 1975.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ^ In the Dresden address books before 1848 there were no entries for Baisch.
  2. ↑ # Thieme-Becker 1908 .
  3. ^ Stuttgart address books 1853–1864. - The 1850 address book does not contain an entry for Baisch, the 1851 and 1852 address books have not been preserved.
  4. ↑ Last entry as "Lithographen Witwe" in the Stuttgart address book 1870.
  5. ^ Stuttgart address books 1864–1874.
  6. ↑ # Thieme-Becker 1908 .
  7. ↑ Digital copies of portraits:
  8. ↑ Fleischhauer expresses himself very disparagingly about Baisch's portraits, which, in his opinion, “mostly only had a soulless photographic character” during his time in Stuttgart.
  9. ↑ The specified work contains 24 lithographs by August Harzer, the color lithograph panel A is unmarked (Hanns-Bruno Geinitz: Characteristics of the layers and petrefacts of the Saxon chalk mountains. Dresden: Arnold, 1839–1842). The information given by the other lithographers involved, Baisch, Barthel, Lochner, may refer to the 1850 edition.
  10. ↑ See #Koch 1862 .
personal data
SURNAME Baisch, Wilhelm Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1864
Place of death Stuttgart