Wilhelm Hecht

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Wilhelm Hecht

Wilhelm Hecht (born March 28, 1843 in Ansbach , † beginning of March 1920 in Linz , Austria) was a German wood cutter and etcher.

Wilhelm Hecht learned the art of woodcutting from the form cutter Döring in Nuremberg from 1857 to 1859 , then trained in larger studios in Leipzig, Berlin and Stuttgart and in 1868 he set up his own studio in Munich. In 1885 he was called to Vienna to take over the newly founded xylographic department of the K. k. To manage court and state printing . At the same time he received a professorship for wood engraving at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna . In retirement, Hecht lived in Graz, Munich and, after 1912, in Linz.

He did particularly well in facsimile editing from drawings. An order from the Society for Reproductive Art in Vienna to carry out a few woodcuts based on the paintings in the Schack Gallery in Munich prompted him to try his hand at etching , which he subsequently devoted himself entirely to.

He etched with great success after Schwind , Böcklin , Lenbach , Rottmann , Schleich , van Dyck and Jan van Schorel and also in two original etchings (Kaiser Wilhelm and King Ludwig of Bavaria in the vestments of the Order of St. George, the latter of unusual size) Expressed skill for picturesque arrangement. Wood engravings made by Hecht u. a. for the children's and house tales by the Brothers Grimm, Goethe's Faust (based on Alexander von Liezen-Mayer ), Schiller's Song of the Bell (also based on Alexander von Liezen-Mayer) and for the Broken Jug (based on Menzel ).

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SURNAME Hecht, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH March 1920
Place of death Linz , Austria