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Niklaus Bütler
Niklaus Bütler (28 October 1786, Auw – 14 November 1864, Lucerne) was a Swiss painter; primarily of portraits. Life and work He received his artistic training in Zürich, with Johann Heinrich Wüest and Johann Kaspar Huber (1752-1827). Upon returning to his hometown, he married Anna Maria Trutmann, from an impoverished family. They relocated to Küssnacht in 1820 and had several children, including Anton and Joseph, who also became artists. In the hopes of procuring a better livelihood, they moved to Lucerne in 1839. Their situation improved, but they remained poor. He is mainly remembered for portraits, although he also produced church paintings, historical scenes, and theatrical sets. His best known work is a monumental canvas depicting the death of Albrecht Gessler, which was created in 1834 for a chapel in Küssnacht, where William Tell was said to have shot Gessler with a crossbow A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an Elasticity (physics), elastic launching devi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auw AG
Auw is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History The first evidence of a human settlement near Auw are some Roman era cremation urn burials. The modern municipality of Auw is first mentioned in 924 as ''Houva''. In 1306 it was mentioned as ''Owe''. The major landholders in Auw were Muri and Engelberg Abbeys as well as the knightly family of Rüssegg. The rights to low justice was held by the Habsburgs and the Knight of Rüssegg, the high court right was held until 1415 by the Habsburgs. Between 1415 and 1425 the high court right belonged to Lucerne. Then the court rights moved to district of Meienberg. In 1715 a major fire destroyed 43 buildings. The first schoolhouse was built in 1809 and replaced with a new building in 1954. Initially the church in Auw was a filial church to the parish church in Sins. The local parish was created in 1638 by agreement with Engelberg parish and was under that parish. This arraignment was mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucerne
Lucerne ( ) or Luzern ()Other languages: ; ; ; . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Languages of Switzerland, German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the Lucerne (district), district of the same name. With a population of approximately 82,000 people, Lucerne is List of cities in Switzerland, the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and a nexus of economics, transport, culture, and media in the region. The city's urban area consists of 19 municipalities and towns with an overall population of about 220,000 people. Owing to its location on the shores of Lake Lucerne () and its outflow, the river Reuss (river), Reuss, within sight of the mounts Pilatus (mountain), Pilatus and Rigi in the Swiss Alps, Lucerne has long been a destination for tourists. One of the city's landmarks is the Chapel Bridge (), a wooden bridge first erected in the 14th century. The official language of Lucerne is German language, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Küssnacht
Küssnacht am Rigi (official name since 2004: Küssnacht) is a village and a district and a municipality in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. The municipality consists of the three villages Küssnacht, Immensee, and Merlischachen, the hamlet ''Haltikon'', the industrial area ''Fänn'', and the alp ''Seeboden''. It is situated at the north shore of Lake Lucerne and at the south shore of Lake Zug below mount Rigi (). History Küssnacht is first mentioned around 840 as ''in Chussenacho'' though this is from an 11th Century copy of the original document. In 1179 it was mentioned as ''Chussenacho''. In 1424 Küssnacht became a ''district'' of the Canton of Schwyz. Its etymology comes from the German words Küss and Nacht, meaning Kiss and Night respectively. According to the legend of Wilhelm Tell, the hero shot the Austrian bailiff Gessler at the ''Hohle Gasse'' near the ''Gesslerburg'' with his crossbow: On August 29, 1935, Queen Astrid of the Belgians was kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Bütler
Anton Bütler, born Joseph Antonius Laurentius Bütler (12 August 1819, Auw AG, Auw – 18 November 1874, Lucerne) was a Swiss landscape, history and church painter. Life and work He was the son of Niklaus Bütler, an artist, and his wife Anna Maria née Trutmann. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Küssnacht, where his family moved in 1820. His first lessons in art came from his father. When he was sixteen, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; copying the Dutch Masters and working as an assistant to Peter von Cornelius. In 1840, he settled in Lucerne, where his family had moved the year before, and set up a studio. In 1844, he was commissioned to decorate the . He also painted some altarpieces. In 1848, he left Lucerne for further studies. Some sources say he returned to Munich, others that he went to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and worked under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. From 1855 to 1857, he was in Rome. From 1865 to 1868, seeking to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Niklaus Bütler
Joseph Niklaus Bütler, born Josephus Nicolaus Gallus Bütler (16 October 1822, Küssnacht – 20 January 1885, Düsseldorf) was a Swiss landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work He was the son of Niklaus Bütler, an artist, and his wife Anna Maria née Trutmann. He received his first art lessons from his father. He began painting around 1840, after his family had taken up residence in Lucerne. From 1852 to 1853, he attended classes taught by the landscape painter, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1858, following a brief return to Lucerne, to resolve some financial issues, he settled in Düsseldorf. For a short time, he shared his home with his brother Anton Bütler, Anton, who was also an artist. He devoted himself exclusively to landscape painting; presenting scenes from the Swiss Alps, rendered in the popular style. He was also influenced by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who spoke of unadulterated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Gessler
Albrecht Gessler, also known as Hermann, was a legendary 14th-century House of Habsburg, Habsburg bailiff () at Altdorf, Uri, Altdorf, whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the eventual independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy. Legend According to the ''Chronicon Helveticum'' by Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), in 1307 Gessler raised a pole in the market square of Altdorf, Uri, Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Uri, Switzerland, placed his hat atop it, and ordered all the townsfolk to bow before it. Tell, whose marksmanship and pride were legendary, publicly refused. Gessler's cruel wrath was tempered by his curiosity to test Tell's skill, so he gave Tell the option of either being executed or Shooting an apple off one's child's head, shooting an apple off his son's head in one try. Tell succeeded in splitting the apple with his arrow, saving his own life. When Gessler asked why he had readied two crossbow bolts, he lied and replied that it was out of habit. After being ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tell
William Tell (, ; ; ; ) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. He is known for shooting an apple off his son's head. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide encouraged the population to open rebellion and to make a pact against the foreign rulers with neighbouring Schwyz and Unterwalden, marking the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy. Tell was considered the father of the Swiss Confederacy. Set in the early 14th century (traditional date 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg), the first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century, when the Swiss Confederacy was gaining military and political influence. Tell is a central figure in Swiss national historiography, along with Arnold von Winkelried, the hero of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossbow
A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an Elasticity (physics), elastic launching device consisting of a Bow and arrow, bow-like assembly called a ''prod'', mounted horizontally on a main frame called a ''tiller'', which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock (firearms), stock of a long gun. Crossbows shoot arrow-like projectiles called ''crossbow bolt, bolts'' or ''quarrels''. A person who shoots crossbow is called a ''crossbowman'', an ''arbalister'' or an ''arbalist (crossbowman), arbalist'' (after the arbalest, a European crossbow variant used during the 12th century). Crossbows and bows use the same elastic launch principles, but differ in that an archer using a Bow and arrow, bow must draw-and-shoot in a quick and smooth motion with limited or no time for aiming, while a crossbow's design allows it to be spanned and cocked ready for use at a later time and thus affording them unlimited time to aim. When shooting bows, the archer must fully perform the bow draw, draw, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Swiss Painters
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Male Painters
Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland *Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located in Baghdad, Iraq * Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports * Swiss International Air Lines **Swiss Global Air Lines, a subsidiary *Swissair, former national air line of Switzerland * .swiss alternative TLD for Switzerland See also *Swiss made, label for Swiss products *Swiss cheese (other) *Switzerland (other) *Languages of Switzerland, none of which are called "Swiss" *International Typographic Style, also known as Swiss Style, in graphic design *Schweizer (other), meaning Swiss in German *Schweitzer Schweitzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), German theologian, musician, physician, and medical missionary, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
