Wilhelm Heuer

Christian Ludwig Wilhelm Heuer (born November 6, 1813 in Hamburg ; † April 15, 1890 there ) was a German lithographer .

Life

Heuer was born during the occupation of Hamburg by the French Revolutionary Army in Hamburg's Görttwiete near the hop market. He was the son of the tailor Johann Friedrich Heuer and Christina Magdalena, née Lehmann from Uelzen . His birth was registered in the French " Civil Status - Birth Register of Hambourg" under the number 2738. When he was just a year old, his parents moved into a house in Stavenpforte and later on Altenwallstraße. The house there fell victim to the Hamburg fire in 1842 .

This year his apprenticeship as a lithographer began around 1828/1829 in the Suhr brothers' printing works . After completing his apprenticeship, he initially worked there and only went to Vienna in the second half of the 1830s to perfect his skills . Here he also met his future wife Maria Grisenberger (* 1816), whom he married on April 11, 1837 in the parish of St. Leopold. She was a daughter of the small cottager Leopold Grisenberger.

He and his wife returned to his hometown immediately after the Great Fire in 1842. In the same year, Heuer began a long-term collaboration with a famous Hamburg-based lithographic company, the company of Charles Fuchs . Heuer's first larger work was published there in August 1842, a panorama of the burned down Hanseatic city of Hamburg, which cost 12 marks in colored form.

After that, Heuer worked, among other things, for the Berendsohn'sche art and bookstore, for which he produced a series of "historical situation and topography pictures from the [...] history of Hamburg". They were intended for Hamburg's memorial book - a chronicle of his fate and events , which was completed in 1844. In the years up to 1847 the Picturesque Views of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg appeared in 56 sheets .

What is less well known is that Wilhelm Heuer made numerous lithographs for the JC Godeffroy & Sohn company . He lithographed drawings and also photographs that the explorers had brought to Hamburg from the South Seas for the Godeffroy Museum . The lithographs were published in the journals of the Godeffroy Museum between 1873 and 1881.

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  Journal of the Museum Godeffroy, Volume 5, Booklet XIV, Plate 16 Ethnography (Drawing: Th. Kleinschmidt)

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  Journal of the Museum Godeffroy, Volume 5, Booklet XIV, Plate 1

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  Journal of the Museum Godeffroy, Volume 4, Booklet XV Fish of the South Seas, Booklet VII, Plate 138

Main work

Heuer's main work, Hamburg and its surroundings , was published by Carl Gassmann . This year it opened in 1853 with the first twelve lithographs . In the course of the following years this work grew into a continually updated overview of Hamburg. With further large-format lithographs of the Hanseatic city and its surroundings, Heuer advanced to become one of the most respected lithographers in northern Germany. In the last years of his life he made 84 autographs before he died on April 15, 1890 in Hamburg.

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  1855 - St. George

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  1855 - Eimsbüttel

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  1856 - Altona

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  1861 - Wandsbek

literature

• Fred Salamon (ed.), Rolf Müller (introduction), Grace of the North: Wilhelm Heuer and his graphic work , Wachholtz Verlag GmbH, Neumünster 1996, ISBN 3-529-05114-4
• Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , Die Bildenden Künstler Vol. 1, edit. by a committee of the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg, 1854, p. 112, ( online Hamburg State and University Library).

Web links

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