Meinrad Iten
Meinrad Iten (30 June 1867, Unterägeri – 28 June 1932, Unterägeri) was a Swiss portrait and landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biography His father, Jakob Josef Iten, a Cooper (profession), cooper by trade, died when Meinrad was only two years old. His mother, Barbara, took him to live with his uncle, Johann Josef Iten. From 1881 to 1883, he attended a Catholic school in Einsiedeln. There, he received his first drawing lessons, and decided to become a church painter. After completing his secondary education in Stans, he took art lessons from Melchior Paul von Deschwanden, and briefly studied at the Beuron Art School. In 1885, he went to Munich, where he worked in the studios of Joseph Brandenberg (1858–1906), as preparation for applying to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Later that same year, he was admitted. His principal instructors there included Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, and Adolf Schill. On Crola's advice, he abandoned religious ...
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