DOI Artikel:
Weiner-Zalewska, Joanna: Julius Gotthard Beniamin Greth - portrecista miast
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43445#0104
Joanna
Weiner-
-Zalewska
Julius Gotthard Beniamin Greth - Portraitist ofCities
Julius Gotthard Benjamin Greth is one of the most enigmatic characters in the
history of nineteenth-century graphic art. It was a vain effort to look for his biography
in dictionaries and encyclopaedias, even in those most reliable. For the last few years
the only piece of information about him was a laconic notę published in Allgemeines
Lexikon der Bildenden Kiinstler by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker regarding the year
and place of his birth, profession and datę of the publication of the set of drawings
created in Gdańsk.
Julius Greth remained virtually anonymous to the world of art and science until the
publication of a short article by Dr Mariusz Gliński in the Encyclopaedia of Gdańsk in
2012. This situation is surprising because of the enormous amount of the artists works
used as a visuals in scientific and also popular science publications.
Julius Gotthard Benjamin Greth was born on 9 December 1824 in Bydgoszcz, where
he assumedly started his artistic career. He died in 1903 in Heidelberg, in south-west
Germany. Julius Greth was an illustrator, engraver and painter associated with the Acad-
emy of Arts in Kónigsberg and Gdańsk. Among his best -known pieces of art, though
not always attributed to him, are engravings from the album Danzigs alterthumliche
Gebaude (...), showing the architecture of Gdańsk, and album Erinnerungen an den
Bodensee with works illustrating surroundings of Lakę Constance.
The article "Julius Greth - the Portraitist of Cities” is an endeavour to create the
artists first monograph.
Weiner-
-Zalewska
Julius Gotthard Beniamin Greth - Portraitist ofCities
Julius Gotthard Benjamin Greth is one of the most enigmatic characters in the
history of nineteenth-century graphic art. It was a vain effort to look for his biography
in dictionaries and encyclopaedias, even in those most reliable. For the last few years
the only piece of information about him was a laconic notę published in Allgemeines
Lexikon der Bildenden Kiinstler by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker regarding the year
and place of his birth, profession and datę of the publication of the set of drawings
created in Gdańsk.
Julius Greth remained virtually anonymous to the world of art and science until the
publication of a short article by Dr Mariusz Gliński in the Encyclopaedia of Gdańsk in
2012. This situation is surprising because of the enormous amount of the artists works
used as a visuals in scientific and also popular science publications.
Julius Gotthard Benjamin Greth was born on 9 December 1824 in Bydgoszcz, where
he assumedly started his artistic career. He died in 1903 in Heidelberg, in south-west
Germany. Julius Greth was an illustrator, engraver and painter associated with the Acad-
emy of Arts in Kónigsberg and Gdańsk. Among his best -known pieces of art, though
not always attributed to him, are engravings from the album Danzigs alterthumliche
Gebaude (...), showing the architecture of Gdańsk, and album Erinnerungen an den
Bodensee with works illustrating surroundings of Lakę Constance.
The article "Julius Greth - the Portraitist of Cities” is an endeavour to create the
artists first monograph.