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Johann Heinrich Wüest
Johann Heinrich Wüest (14 May 1741, Zürich - 7 April 1821, Zürich) was a Swiss landscape painter in the Romantic style. Life and work His father was a rope maker. His artistic training took place entirely in Zürich, where he also spent most of his working career. For a time, he studied with Johann Balthasar Bullinger, who recommended that he continue his studies in Holland. As a result, his early works were heavily influenced by Flemish painting from the Dutch Golden Age. During his stay there, he worked closely with his fellow Swiss artist, , who introduced him to the art dealer, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. In 1766, he went to Paris for further studies. He returned to Zürich in 1769 and was accepted into the painters' guild. Over the next two decades, he developed his own, distinctive style. After Maurer's death, in 1780, Wüest adopted his son. In 1787, he became one of the founders of the Zürcher Künstlergesellschaft (art society). His best known works are those por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Rhonegletscher - Johann Heinrich Wüest (Kunsthaus Zürich)
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Jacob Van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (; 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular. Prolific and versatile, Ruisdael depicted a wide variety of landscape subjects. From 1646 he painted Dutch countryside scenes of remarkable quality for a young man. After a trip to Germany in 1650, his landscapes took on a more heroic character. In his late work, conducted when he lived and worked in Amsterdam, he added city panoramas and seascapes to his regular repertoire. In these, the sky often took up two-thirds of the canvas. In total he produced more than 150 Scandinavian views featuring waterfalls. Ruisdael's only registered pupil was Meindert Hobbema, one of several artists who painted figures in his landscapes. Hobbema's work has at times been confused with Ruisdael's. Ruisdael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Painters
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1821 Deaths
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1741 Births
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Paola Von Wyss-Giacosa
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Heinrich Freudweiler
Heinrich Freudweiler, a Swiss portrait and genre painter, was born at Zurich in 1755, and was first instructed by H. Wüst; he afterwards studied at the Academies at Düsseldorf and Mannheim, and visited Dresden and Berlin, where he became acquainted with Graf (; feminine: ) is a historical title of the German nobility and later also of the Russian nobility, usually translated as "count". Considered to be intermediate among noble ranks, the title is often treated as equivalent to the British title ... and Chodowiecky. In 1785 he returned to Zurich, and died in 1795. He painted several historical scenes relating to his country. References * 1755 births 1795 deaths 18th-century Swiss painters 18th-century Swiss male artists Swiss male painters Swiss portrait painters Swiss genre painters Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Artists from Zurich {{Switzerland-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Hess
Ludwig Hess (18 October 1760, Zürich - 13/16 April 1800, Zürich) was a Swiss landscape painter and engraver. Biography His father was a butcher and he initially became one as well. In 1785, he was enrolled as a member of Guild of the Ram, one of the Zünfte of Zürich, which included butchers and cattle merchants. After 1790, he served as a Grossrat. That same year. he married Anna Barbara Wegmann. The painters Johann Heinrich Wüest and Salomon Gessner were his customers and, as early as 1778, he had begun taking lessons from Wüest. In 1784, he also began studying with Gessner. In 1794, he decided to abandon his trade; making trips to Florence and Rome for further study. Most of his early works were Alpine landscapes, notably of Mont Blanc, Rütli and the Tellskapelle and he was an early practitioner of topography. After 1798, he also did copper engravings. In 2005, a previously unknown biography of him was discovered at the ETH Zürich ETH Zurich (; ) is a publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staffage
In painting, staffage () are the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ..., that are not the primary subject matter of the work. Typically they are small, and there to add an indication of scale and add interest. Before the adoption of the word into the visual arts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, ''Staffage'' in German language, German could mean "accessories" or "decoration". The word can be used in two senses: as a general term for any figures in a work, even when they are, at least ostensibly, the main subject, and as a descriptive term for figures to whom no specific identity or story is attached, included merely for compositional or decorative reasons. In the latter sense, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Strange (diplomat)
John Strange (1732–1799) was an English diplomat and author. Biography He was the second and only surviving son of Sir John Strange, by his wife Susan, eldest daughter of Edward Strong of Greenwich, born at Barnet in 1732. He was educated privately and at Clare Hall, Cambridge where he was admitted a fellow-commoner in 1751; he graduated M.A. in 1755. On his father's death he saw through the press the volume of ''Reports'' published in 1755. He was left very well off, and on leaving Cambridge travelled extensively in the south of France and Italy. Developing a taste for science and archaeology, Strange was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 10 April, and admitted to the Royal Society on 24 April 1766. Shortly afterwards he was elected F.S.A., and as the result of a summer spent in South Wales in 1768, he contributed to the first number of the '' Archæologia'' "An Account of Roman Remains in and near the City of Brecknock". In 1771 he made an archaeological tour in the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Heinrich Wüest Burg Kyburg
Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" or "Yahweh is Merciful". Its English language equivalent is John. It is uncommon as a surname. People People with the name Johann include: Mononym * Johann, Count of Cleves (died 1368), nobleman of the Holy Roman Empire * Johann, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1662–1698), German nobleman *Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1578–1638), German nobleman A–K * Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), German composer * Johann Adam Reincken (1643–1722), Dutch/German organist * Johann Adam Remele (died 1740), German court painter * Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649–1697) * Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), German Composer * Johann Altfuldisch (1911—1947), German Nazi SS concentration camp officer executed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhône Glacier
The Rhône Glacier (, Walliser German: ''Rottengletscher'', , ) is a glacier in the Swiss Alps and the source of the river Rhône and one of the primary contributors to Lake Geneva in the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais. While the glacier is accessible via the Furka Pass road, it can only be visited between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox (roughly 120 days a year). Geography The Rhône Glacier is the largest glacier in the Urner Alps. It lies on the south side of the range at the source of the Rhône. The ''Undri Triftlimi'' (3,081 m) connects it to the Trift Glacier. The glacier is located on the northernmost part of the canton of Valais, between the Grimsel Pass and the Furka Pass and is part of the Oberwald municipality. The Dammastock (3,630 m) is the highest summit above the glacier. Evolution File:Johann Heinrich Müller, 1825-1894 H21 Rhonegletscher.JPG, 1870 File:Gletch und Rhonegletscher um 1900.jpeg, 1900 File:Rhoneglacier.JPG, 2005 File ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
