Johann Georg
Wolff

Around 1824-30, he was a student at the Nuremberg Art School, where his interest in architectural drawings was encouraged by Christoph Baron Haller von Hallerstein. Another teacher was Albert Christoph Reindel. He became a teacher in 1839 and became a professor of linear perspective at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts in 1864 (until 1868). His main work is the "Nuremberg Memorial Book," with the main title "Complete Collection of all Architectural Monuments, Monuments, and Other Curiosities of Nuremberg, in Steel Engravings after Original Drawings by J. G. Wolff, Painter and Teacher at the Imperial Nuremberg School of Applied Arts."

The first edition, published in 1845, features descriptions by Dr. Friedrich Mayer (Vol. 1 with plates 1-50, Vol. 2 with plates 51-100). The second edition, published in 1875, features descriptions by Dr. Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner, vol. 1 with plates 1-65, vol. 2 with plates 66-131. In between, there was a supplementary volume with 30 plates without descriptions.

The steel engravings in the first edition were by Ferdinand Rothbart and Christian Heinrich Kummet; the second edition included engravings by J. C. Heubach and J. Falkner. In 1850/56, Wolff was based at S. 1242 (Webersplatz 4).

Works: NUREMBERG: "The All Saints Chapel in the Landau Monastery," oil on canvas, c. 1836; "The Eucharist Chapel near St. Egidien," oil on canvas, c. 1836. Museum: NUREMBERG, MStN.

References: Thieme-Becker; Schornsches Kunstblatt 1847, p. 208; AdBK, 1933; Mende, Town Hall 1979.

Exhibitions: 1824/1; 1827/1; 1830/1; 1836/1; 1836/2; 1838/1; 1942/1; 1971/8 No. 72; 1972/5; 1977/1; 1971/8 No. 72; 1972/5 Nos. 95-97; 1977/1; 1979/2; 1986/6; 1991/1; 1992/1. (quoted from the Nuremberg Artists' Lexicon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb)