Wilhelm Witthöft
Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Witthöft , mostly just Wilhelm Witthöft (formerly also Witthoeft ), (born August 11, 1816 in Stralsund , † July 24, 1874 in Berlin ) was a German draftsman , etcher , copper and steel engraver . Some of his works are listed in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and can be accessed online.
biography
Born in Stralsund as the son of a poor soldier shortly after the Napoleonic Wars , he learned from about 1835 in Dresden with Anton Ferdinand Krüger , since 1829 professor at the Dresden Art Academy . A short stay led him to Samuel Amsler in Munich in 1839 . Witthöft lived in the Saxon capital Dresden until 1845 , then in Berlin. Witthöft was married and had at least one daughter.
In Dresden he first made a plate with three landscapes for the Sächsischer Kunstverein in 1836 , which in 1841 acquired a drawing from him entitled "View of the Castle Hill".
He came into contact with Ludwig Richter early on . He etched his early paintings “Ariccia” (1836) and “Civitella” (also the return of the shepherds ) for Richter. Later he made an engraving based on Richter's “Resting Pilgrim”. From 1841 he worked for Richter's publisher Georg Wigand at the Mayer & Wigand publishing house in Leipzig and produced a large bundle of engravings based on Richter's drawings. So u. a. the "Hikes through the Giant Mountains ". Further pictures followed until around 1845.
In the 1840s, he had more of his works published by M&W , including the two booklets of one of his main works, the "Executed etchings based on original paintings, etc." Drawings by German Artists ”(3 sheets each). The first contains the well-known “evening prayer” (often incorrectly referred to as “evening landscape”) by Ludwig Richter. The well-known etching was not, as is usually stated, made from the picture, but from a first small sketch by Richter. The other etchings are taken from the artists of the Düsseldorf School : u. a. Carl Friedrich Lessing , Eduard Wilhelm Pose , Caspar Scheuren , but also by Heinrich Bürkel and the Dresden romantic and landscape painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme .
During his time in Dresden he drew many views of Saxon and Thuringian places, landscapes, especially castles , palaces and ruins for stone printing (summer "Saxonia, Bd IV" from 1839) or as vignettes for L. Puttrich's "Monuments of Medieval Architecture " by 1841 to 1844 and continued this until 1850, then already living in Berlin.
From 1844 Wilhelm Witthöft began to engrave well-known pictures for the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (including Titian's “ Der Zinsgroschen ” and Rembrandt's “Self-Portrait with Saskia”).
After 1845 and his move to Berlin he worked a. a. for the Association of Art Friends in the Prussian State in 1846/47 a steel engraving after Karl Friedrich Schinkel's painting " View in Greece's Blossom " and for the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. 1850 a view of Marienburg Castle , which he had already engraved several times, as well as landscape and architectural images partly in line, partly in black art manner . He supplied additional sheets as annual gifts to the art associations in Neupommern and Thuringia as well as to the Berlin “ Verein für Kupferstich ” and other engravings for the Saxon Art Association. In addition, he etched many engravings about Austrian places and landscapes, especially from Tyrol , Lower Styria and Carniola .
A work from his summer stay on Rügen "Gasthaus auf Stubbenkammer" from July 1860 and the so-called Schweizerhaus auf Stubbenkammer designed by Schinkel in 1835 is in the Stralsund Museum .
He was on the album “Blätter u. Flowers of German poetry a. Art ”(2nd edition Leipzig 1867) involved with steel engravings and created a series of mezzotint engravings for the art publisher Lüderitz-Berlin .
In his day his work was described as " elegant, in the manner of the modern English school " . His pictures are preserved in various collections in Europe and reproductions of his works are in circulation or traded.
Exhibitions
- About the Dresden Art Academy: 2 exhibitions: 1836 and then again in 1864
- About the Berlin Art Academy: Exhibitions in 1848, 1856, 1860, 1862, 1866, 1868 and 1870
literature
- Witthoeft, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (1801–1866): New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. , Volume 22 (Witsen –Zyx), Munich 1852, p. 4
Web links
- Witthöft, Wilhelm (1816–1874) ( short biography ), website of Galerie Saxonia
- Online Collection: Witthöft, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich , Witthöft's pictures in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden at skd-online-collection.skd.museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online Collection: Witthöft, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich of the Dresden State Art Collections on skd-online-collection.skd.museum ; accessed April 28, 2020
- ^ A b Witthoeft, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (1801–1866): New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. , Munich 1852. S 4
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Witthöft, Wilhelm (1816-1874) , website of the Saxonia Gallery ; accessed on April 28, 2020
- ^ Johann Friedrich Hoff: Adrian Ludwig Richter. Maler und Radirer , Dresden 1870, p. 480
- ^ Original in the Swedish National Museum: Rembrandt med sin hustru Saskia steel engraving by Wilhelm Witthöft ; accessed on April 28, 2020
- ^ Marienburg / Witthöft after Schultz , private website; accessed on April 28, 2020
- ↑ a b Malerlexikon - W: Witthöft, Wilhelm on insularugia.de ; accessed on April 28, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Witthöft, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Witthöft, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich (full name); Witthoeft, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman, eraser, copper and steel engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1874 |
| Place of death | Berlin |