Adolf Rudolf Holzhalb

Adolf Rudolf Holzhalb (born July 13, 1835 in Zurich ; † August 5, 1885 in Riesbach , today the municipality of Zurich) was a Swiss landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School and professor of landscape drawing at the Zurich Polytechnic .

Life

Holzhalb was born the son of the merchant and cavalry major Hans Rudolf Holzhalb (1799–1850). The father, who had been a pupil of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Yverdon-les-Bains from 1810 to 1813 , sent his son, who had studied drawing, painting and modeling at the Polytechnic Zurich in 1856 and had attended art history lectures with Jacob Burckhardt , to return further training to Düsseldorf . There, Holzhalb first became a private student of the Norwegian landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude in 1857 . In the same year he moved to the private studio of the German landscape and architectural painter Gottfried Pulian , who taught him until 1861. Under Pulian's guidance, he toured Germany, the Netherlands, France, Austria and Italy. From 1859 to 1861/1862 Holzhalb was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . In 1862 he returned to Zurich. In 1874 he became a professor of landscape drawing at the Polytechnic in Zurich. When he fell into " melancholy " in 1881 , he gave up this activity. His students included the future engineer-topographer Xaver Imfeld and the future architect Karl Moser .

Holzhalb created mountain, river and lake landscapes with a late romantic character, which he decorated with views of buildings. In 1871 he donated a picture to the Zurich Polytechnic showing the “primeval forest before the creation of man”, which he had made according to the instructions of the Swiss geologist Arnold Escher von der Linth and the Swiss botanist Oswald Heer . Holzhalb was a member of the Zürcher Künstlergesellschaft, which he served as chairman in 1881.

literature

Holzhalb, Adolf . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 265.
Holzhalb, Adolf Rudolf . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 268.

Web links

Tapan Bhattacharya: Holzhalb, Adolf Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2006.
Holzhalb, Adolf Rudolf , entry in the sikart.ch portal( SIKART lexicon on art in Switzerland )
Adolf Rudolf Holzhalb , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Rebekka Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler (ed.): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . Volume 3: 1810-1813. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, De Gruyter, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-667-2 , p. 202 ( Google Books ).
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432.

personal data
SURNAME	Holzhalb, Adolf Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School and professor of landscape drawing at the Zurich Polytechnic
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1885
Place of death	Riesbach

[1] Rebekka Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler (ed.): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . Volume 3: 1810-1813. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, De Gruyter, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-667-2 , p. 202 ( Google Books ).

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432.