« … and soon (Ridinger) acquired, yet more
by own reflection and observation than by the mentioned teachers,
a particular proficiency in drawing and painting horses and fair game … »
Franz Ritter von Kobell
1865 in the preface to Johann Laifle’s “(Ridinger Album … photographed from the Original Engravings)”
JOHANN ELIAS RIDINGER
Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767
books · drawings · etchings · mezzotints · paintings
In the order of the catalogs raisonné
Thienemann & Stillfried and the Catalog of the Gutmann Collection (Schwarz)
unknown sheets placed in front, drawings integrated as far as possible
- When India stopped the West :
Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century - Alexander the Great 326 at the Hyphasis / Punjab
(issue 15 of the publications of the ridinger gallery niemeyer) - Spectacular Ridinger discovery — “Death’s Arch of Triumph”
Allegory of Death (after Andrea Andreani)
“A pasticcio of iconographic, iconological, and artistic citations” - One of the largest Ridinger drawings :
Daniel in the Den of Lions
as symbolic parable for the Israelites - Imperial Thanks
Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Issued by Imperial Count Palatine Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - 3 x illustrious prior possession
Ridinger’s “Ingenious Sketch”
Big Wild He-cat dispensing Justice among Three Ducks
Red chalk related to Th. 180, 1069 & 219 as well as ideally 389 - Inspired by Watteau :
The work of self-identification for the minimized Ridinger
The Hippocrene or The Donation of Water - Unique in the Ridinger Œuvre
The Intimate Cabinet Drawing of the Jolles Collection :
An Old Horse’s Upper Jaw-Bone as seen from Below - Two undescribed Ridingers and a bow before our female hunters
Young Huntresses in the Character of Diana - With two rarest additions to the “Most Wondrous Deer”
Laifle, J(ohann). Ridinger-Album. A Collection of the Finest and Rarest Deer and Roebuck Abnormities photographed from the Original Engravings
in 50 albumin prints from 1865
in adequate showcase copy of the Red Series
just published
Jan Hendrik Niemeyer
Ridinger Experiences
Life · Work · Posthumous Fame in Dates & Annotations
The Great Fact, Reading and Picture Book
In German. 2021. 29.7 × 21 cm. 340 pages. With 339 (180 color, 6 double/full-page each) illustrations. Laminated orig. boards in thread stitching. Photo brilliant print on 200 g paper. – Text in red & black. More …
Also discover Johann Elias Ridinger in
publications of the ridinger gallery niemeyer
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art-historical lectures and essays
„ nachdem die wunderbare Stangenabwurf-Folge (Wintter’s Aufsezen oder wachstum des Hirschgeweihes hiesiger Lieferung) nun meine Wand ziert, habe ich zwei (Desiderata-)Bitten an Sie. Es fehlt mir … Können Sie mir behilflich sein? “
(Herr C. R., 28. Januar 2015)