Johann Michael Voltz (16 October 1784 in Nördlingen – 17 April 1858 in Nördlingen) was a German painter, graphic artist and political cartoonist.
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.
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.