3784 - Eberhard Emminger, Marbach, Schiller’s birthplace

Eberhard Emminger, Marbach, Schiller’s birthplace View across the Neckar towards the town, with figures in the foreground; watercolour lithograph, c. 1850; inscribed beneath the image in the print: ‘N.d. Nat. drawn and lithographed by Eb. Emminger” and “Printed by G. Küstner”, titled “Schiller’s Birthplace, Marbach” in the centre, slight signs of wear, mounted behind a passe-partout, image dimensions excluding text approx. 24 x 38 cm. Artist information: born Markus Eberhard Aloys Emminger, German lithographer, landscape draughtsman and painter (1808-1885, Biberach an der Riss), briefly studied under the painter Johann-Baptist Pflug in Biberach, 1822-26: apprenticeship at the Ebner art dealership in Stuttgart, followed by a brief period as a student at the Stuttgart Academy; pupil of Johann Friedrich Dieterich; largely self-taught artist; instructed in lithography by Lorenz Ekemann-Allesson, 1835-36: study tour to Munich and Italy (Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ancona, Rome, Tivoli, Terni, Naples, Florence) on a royal scholarship, in 1838, a journey along the Danube, and in 1845, a walk along the Rhine; in 1849, a trip to Rome; the numerous landscape drawings produced during these journeys were, upon his return, transformed into lithographs and proved very popular; in 1854, he moved to Munich, In 1873, he moved to Stuttgart and returned to Biberach in 1878. Sources: Thieme-Becker, *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie*; Saur, *Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon*; Nagel, *Schwäbisches Künstlerlexikon*; Nagler; Müller-Klunzinger, Müller-Singer, Seubert and Wikipedia.