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Albert Welti (18 February 1862 – 7 June 1912) was a Swiss painter and etcher. Many of his works depicted dreams or nightmares.
''Philatlie Schweiz''
Ulrich Fehlmann, "Streit um Walter: Die Polemik um die Briefmarkenausgabe von 1907".
File:Welti Walpurgisnacht 1897.jpg, Walpurgis Night
File:Welti Landsgemeinde3 1912.jpg, Die Landesgemeinde
File:Welti Nebelreiter 1896.jpg, Fog Rider
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Albert Welti (18 February 1862 – 7 June 1912) was a Swiss painter and etcher. Many of his works depicted dreams or nightmares.
Biography
Welti was born in Zurich as the oldest of seven children of Jakob Albert Welti-Furrer (1833-1906), ahauler Haulage is the business of transporting goods by road or rail between suppliers and large consumer outlets, factories, warehouses, or depots. This includes everything humans might wish to move in bulk - from vegetables and other foodstuffs, to cloth ...
, and Anna Barbara Furrer. Part of the French Armée de l'Est
The Armée de l'Est (''Army of the East''; German - Ostarmee; also Second Loire Army; nicknamed the 'Bourbaki army' after its first commander General Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki) was a French army which took part in the Franco-Prussian War of ...
was billeted
A billet is a living-quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. Historically, a billet was a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier.
Soldiers are generally billeted in barracks or garrisons when not on combat duty, alth ...
on his grandfather's property in 1871, and watching their activities inspired his later interest in historical scenes.
After completing his primary education, Welti attended the local ''Industrieschule'', where he studied engraving with Johann Conrad Werdmüller
Johann Conrad Werdmüller (10 November 1819, Zürich - 3 September 1892, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a Swiss illustrator and engraver.
Biography
He was the only son of Salomon Werdmüller and his wife Margarethe, née Bertschinger. They both ...
. In 1880, he began a photography apprenticeship with his uncle Oswald Welti (1843-1932) in Lausanne, but stayed with him for only one year, enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1882. After returning to Zurich in 1886, he became an student and assistant of painter Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin (16 October 182716 January 1901) was a Swiss symbolist painter.
Biography
He was born in Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin (b. 1802), was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk tra ...
, who would become his main influence. Welti worked at Böcklin's studio until 1891, when he began his career as an independent artist.
In 1894, Welti married Emmeline Wildbolz. They settled in the outskirts of Munich the next year, where Welti opened a studio. He regularly travelled to Switzerland, and after his father's death, Welti assuaged his grief by visiting Innertkirchen and Vättis, where he created numerous pastel
A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...
nature studies. After that, he worked in Munich until 1908. While there, he became friends with the author Hermann Hesse.
His wife died, suddenly, in 1911. Welti died a year later in Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
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, aged 50. His country home in Ostermundigen, near Bern, was bought by Hesse. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op ...
. His son, Albert Jakob Welti also became an artist and an author. The singer-songwriter Sophie Hunger is his grand niece.
Works
Welti's best known work is probably the largefresco
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...
', in the meeting room of the Council of States at the Federal Palace
The Federal Palace is a building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly (legislature) and the Federal Council (executive). It is the seat of the government of Switzerland and parliament of the country. The building is a listed symmetrica ...
, which was commissioned by the Swiss government in 1908. After his death in 1912, the work was completed by Wilhelm Balmer
Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Balmer (1865–1922) was a painter from Basel.
He was born in Basel as the son of mathematician Johann Jakob Balmer. He was educated in draughtsmanship under Fritz Schnider and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munic ...
in 1914. In addition to his art, he also designed postage stamps for the Swiss Post.Ulrich Fehlmann, "Streit um Walter: Die Polemik um die Briefmarkenausgabe von 1907".
Selected works
References
Further reading
* Philippe Welti and Gaudenz Welti. ''Albert Welti, 1862–1912. Schweizer Maler und Zürcher Zünfter. Ein Lebensbild des um 1900 bekanntesten Schweizer Malers und Zeichners''. Zunft zur Waag. Zürich 2012. .External links
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