Johann Michael Voltz (16 October 1784 in Nördlingen – 17 April 1858 in Nördlingen) was a German painter, graphic artist and political cartoonist.
Self-portrait (1840)
Biography
His father was a schoolteacher. He studied with the engraver and art dealer Friedrich Weber in Augsburg. His drawings and graphic prints brought him to the attention of the court painter.
After completing his education he was employed by Herzberg, an academic bookstore in Augsburg, where he created popular prints. In 1809, after a brief stay in Munich, he joined the firm of picture book publisher Friedrich Campe (1777-1846) in Nuremberg, for which he worked until his death.
In total, his oeuvre includes about 5000 drawings and etchings, which he created for Campe and several other art publishers in Augsburg and Nuremberg, including Von Jenisch- und Stagesche Buchhandlung [de], Johann Leonhard Schrag [de] and Georg Ebner.
He was also known as a prominent German political cartoonist of the early 19th Century. His cartoons, directed against Napoleon Bonaparte, are still reproduced in present-day history books.[1] His depiction of the 1819 anti-Semitic Hep-Hep riots in Frankfurt is often reproduced in articles and books about anti-Semitism in general.
^Art, Brown University. Dept. of; Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of (June 1971). Caricature and its role in graphic satire. The Museum of Art. ISBN9780686104193. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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