Johann Kaspar Füssli, also written Johann Caspar Fuesslin, or Fuessly (9 March 1743 – 4 May 1786), was a

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and

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. He was born in

Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

, the son of

Johann Caspar Füssli Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 – 6 May 1782) was a Swiss portrait painter and art historian. Biography Füssli was born in Zürich to Hans Rudolf Füssli, who was also a painter, and Elisabeth Schärer. He studied painting in Vienna bet ...

(1706–1782) and Anna Elisabeth Waser. He was thus the brother of

Henry Fuseli Henry Fuseli ( ; ; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his successful works depict supernatural experiences, such as '' The Nightmare''. He pr ...

(Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1745–1825). He married twice: to Verena Störi in 1770, and Anna Elisabeth Kilchsperger in 1774. The only spider species he described (as Fuesslin, 1775) that is accepted is the "daddy long-legs spider", ''

Pholcus phalangioides ''Pholcus phalangioides'', commonly known as the cosmopolitan cellar spider, long-bodied cellar spider, or one of various types called a daddy long-legs spider, is a spider of the family Pholcidae. It was first described in 1775 by the Swiss En ...

'', also known as the "cellar spider", which he called ''Aranea phalangoides''. ''Aranea longipes'', which he described in the same work, is now considered to be

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of '' Tegenaria domestica'', first described by Clerck, C. Clerck in 1757. He died, aged 43, in

Winterthur Winterthur (; ) is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. With over 120,000 residents, it is the country's List of cities in Switzerland, sixth-largest city by population, as well as its ninth-largest agglomeration with about 14 ...

Publications

* ''Verzeichnis der ihm bekannten Schweitzerischen Inseckten'' (1775), * * * ''Neue Magazin für Liebhaber der Entomologie'' (1781–86).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fussli, Johann Kaspar Swiss entomologists 18th-century Swiss painters 18th-century Swiss male artists Swiss male painters 1743 births 1786 deaths Artists from Zurich Johann Kaspar