You are bidding on onePre Philatelic Cover the Bonndorf hospital administration in the Black Forest from 1835.

the Lithographer Pecht in Constance, by Andreas Pecht (1773-1852), father of History and portrait painter, lithographer and art writer Friedrich Pecht (1814-1903) is instructed to wait until further notice before printing the imprints because of a changed form.

DatedBonndorf, 17. June 1835.

Address page with red one-liner "BONNDORF" and handwritten franking.

About Andreas Pecht (Source: NDB): Andreas Pecht (1773–1852), from Hassfurt (Lower Franconia), lithographer, bookseller, studied Catholic theology, left Würzburg in 1796, bookseller in the Löbhardtsche bookshop in Bamberg, then in the Riegersche bookshop in Augsburg, took over the branch in Constance in 1798, established 1801/02 with Daniel Fehr ran a bookshop, lending library and printing shop in Frauenfeld and edited the "Thurgauer Zeitung" there, went back to Constance in 1812 after being expelled from Frauenfeld, where he opened a lithography shop in 1815/16. Son of Vitus, the settlement Neudorf b. Haßfurt founded, and Katharina Friedrich; married to Susanna Gänsli (1786-1851), daughter of a canton councillor.

Format:33.5 x 21.3 cm (folded 8.7 x 16.4 cm).

Condition:Paper somewhat creased, with punctures on the left edge. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Evers 20-12

About the son Friedrich Pecht (Source: wikipedia):

August Friedrich Pecht (* 2. October 1814 in Constance; † 24 April 1903 in Munich) was a German history and portrait painter, lithographer and art writer.

Life: Pecht comes from the marriage between the lithographer Andreas Pecht and his wife Susanna Gänsli. He received his first artistic lessons from his father and also trained as a lithographer. In 1833, at the age of 19, Pecht became a student at the Royal Art Academy in Munich. There he soon joined Peter Hess, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and the sculptor Konrad Eberhard.

In 1833 Pecht became assistant to Franz Hanfstaengl in Munich and went to Dresden with him in 1835. However, Pecht later switched from lithography to painting as a result of teaching at the academy. After his initial successes in drawing portraits, the painter Paul Delaroche took him to his studio in Paris for two years in 1839. In the same year he was admitted to the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Minerva zu den Drei Palmen.

In 1841 Pecht returned to Munich and settled there as a freelance painter. Until 1844 he lived alternately there and in Konstanz. Pecht spent the years 1844 to 1847 in Leipzig and Dresden. Between 1835 and 1850 Pecht became acquainted with Gustav Freytag, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Laube, Gottfried Semper, Richard Wagner and many others

In 1852, Pecht married Clothilde Clementine, a daughter of the Württemberg financial adviser Joseph von Vogel, in Ulm. With her he had a daughter.

Pecht spent the years 1851 to 1852 and again 1853 to 1854 in Italy. On both trips he also spent a long time in Rome to study antiquity. When he returned to Germany in 1854, he settled in Munich for the rest of his life. There his z. T. large format oil paintings from the life of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller; mostly commissioned by the Grand Duke of Baden Leopold. Pecht also created illustrations for German classics, including the Schiller Gallery, the Goethe Gallery and the Lessing Gallery, together with Arthur von Ramberg. Pecht wrote the texts for the Shakespeare Gallery, which was created by Max Adamo, among others, and thus made his debut as a knowledgeable art writer.

During these years, Pecht was also commissioned to redesign a hall in Munich's Maximilianeum with several monumental works. Pecht showed deserving generals and statesmen from Bavarian history in twelve pictures. Together with his colleague Fritz Schwörer, whom he knew from his time at the Academy, Pecht was commissioned by the city of Constance to decorate the large hall of the Constance Council building. Here, too, Pecht took up the history of the city and presented, among other things, the election of Pope Martin V in 1417.

From about 1854 Pecht worked almost exclusively as an editor for the art section of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich. For this he then reported exclusively from the world exhibitions in Paris (1867, 1868, 1889) and 1873 in Vienna.

His wife died in 1874 and his daughter took care of his household from then on.

In 1885 Pecht was put in charge of the magazine Die Kunst für Alle. In addition, Pecht published well over 1,500 articles in various daily newspapers (including the Süddeutsche Presse (Munich), Neue Presse (Vienna), Daily Rundschau (Berlin)) on Allen kinds of subjects relating to art. Basically, Pecht was a representative of the conservative trend; but from 1870/71 onwards, during the Franco-Prussian War, Pecht's articles became testimonies of German national consciousness.