Moritz Retzsch

Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch ( born December 9, 1779 Dresden, † June 11, 1857 in Oberlößnitz ) was a German draftsman, painter and etcher. He was the younger brother of the landscape painter August Retzsch ( 1777-1835 ).

Life and work

Formed at the Dresden Academy and Others at Cajetan Toscani, Retzsch 1824 professor at his training center. He became famous for his incurred in classicist style outline etchings to large seals: Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (26 sheets, 1816, with further editions ), Friedrich Schiller's ballads ( Battle with the Dragon, The Song of the Bell, gear after the iron hammer, Pegasus under the yoke ), exhibition of William Shakespeare's dramatic works ( 1827-46 ) and outlines of Gottfried August Bürger's ballads (1840 ). Furthermore, he created portraits, romantic and mythological representations ( Genevieve de Brabant, Undine ( mythology), Erl King and others).

The winery has been a particular passion of Retzsch Moritz, as his wife brought to the marriage a vineyard into the marriage. In 1813 he left the expand named after him Retzschgut in Oberlößnitz, 1828, he moved from Dresden to Oberlößnitz. As a winemaker, he was an honorary member of the Saxon wine-growing society. 1848 Retzsch withdrew entirely on his estate.

For wine festival wine-growing company on October 25, 1840 he designed and directed the great winemakers move from Hoflößnitz for Gasthof Goldene grapes and then made ​​into 8 leaves the outline stitches, which were lithographed as Winzerzug and reproduced as a lithograph. He narrated a true, romanticized image - next to allegory and mythology - the world of work of the winegrower and winemaker of related professions. The Winzerzug accepts the developed since the 16th century canon of courtly wine festivals and developed it further in the bourgeois sense. In the regional museums still exist lithographs from Winzerzug.

Especially valuable is the detailed representation of the production of sparkling wine, which is incorporated into Niederlößnitz 1836, the year in which the later, former factory of sparkling wines buzzard, the second oldest sparkling wine producer in Germany, was founded as a factory for Sparkling wines on share basis (Sheet 4 of '# Winzerzugs ).

1839, a street was named after Moritz Retzsch towards his house.

Works

  • Vineyard Scenes, 1795-1809, 8 ​​books, the Kupferstichkabinett
  • Drawing Three walkers in Loessnitz landscape, 1808
  • Picture Look at the Hoflößnitz, with self-portrait, Weingutsmuseum Hoflößnitz
  • Winzerzug, 8 sheets, glued to Leporello, original in Weingutsmuseum Hoflößnitz
  • Outlines of Goethe 's Faust. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1816
  • Participation in frontispieces to Goethe's final edition. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1828-34. Digitized HAAB Weimar
  • The wine festival wine-growing company in the Kingdom of Saxony on 25/10/1840. C. C. Meinhold & Sons, Dresden, 1840
  • 43 outlines to Schiller 's Song of the Bell: together with hints. Cotta, Stuttgart 1837 ( digitized )
  • Outlines of Shakespeare's dramatic works. Basel 5th edition 1850.
  • Herrmann Zschoche (ed. ); Moritz Retzsch (Ill.); August Retzsch (Ill.): Images of childhood: the picturesque Diary of brothers Retzsch; 1795-1809; ed for the Dresden Print Room. ; ET Art Dresden, Husum, 2007. ISBN 978-3-86530-095-9.
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