Albert Gos

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Albert Gos (born April 6, 1852 in Geneva ; † June 23, 1942 ibid) was a Swiss musician , composer , landscape painter and author . As an admirer of the high mountains, he became, to a certain extent, the “court painter” of the Matterhorn .

family

Albert Gos married Jeanne Monnerat in 1878. They had five children:

  • François Gos (1880–1975),
  • Camille Gos (1884–1963),
  • Charles Gos (1885–1949),
  • Juliette Gos (1887–1952) and
  • Emile Gos (1888-1969).

François Gos became a painter like his father, Charles Gos a writer and Emile Gos a photographer.

In Geneva, a street is named after Albert Gos, the "Rue Albert-Gos".

Musician and composer

Albert Gos studied violin at the Conservatory in Geneva , where he was a student of Amélie Müntz Berger, the wife of Alexandre Calame . As a professional violinist, he received the Conservatory Prize in 1870.

In 1935 the Geneva writer Charles Gos, a son of Albert Gos, wrote a card to the St. Niklaus mountain guide and entrepreneur Erwin Lochmatter , a son of Josef Lochmatter.

Later on on his art trips to Savoy , the Bernese Oberland , the Valais and, above all, the Nikolaital , he always carried his violin with him in addition to paints and brushes. The versatile artist played, varied and improvised together with the local musicians alpine tunes for the locals and the holiday guests. He wrote down a large number of these alpine dance pieces, which have been preserved for posterity. Albert Gos also composed melodies himself.

painter

Several years after Alexandre Calame's death, Albert Gos was asked by his widow to make music with her in the unchanged studio of the late Swiss painter. The discovery of Calame's pictures led Albert Gos to embark on a second career as a painter , studying for a semester with Barthélemy Menn . As an admirer of the high mountains, he became, to a certain extent, the “court painter” of the Matterhorn .

He has been awarded several prizes. In 1880 (before Ferdinand Hodler ) he won the first Diday Prize and in 1887 (again before Hodler) the Calame Prize. His works were shown at important events, for example at the Royal Academy in London in 1880 and at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , where he won a medal. Today they are u. a. to be found in museums in Switzerland and the USA (Louisville, Buffalo and Brooklyn / New York).

author

In 1942 Albert Gos published the autobiography "Souvenirs d'un peintre de montagne" (Memories of a mountain painter).

Mountain Guide Museum

Portrait of the mountain guide Josef Lochmatter (1872–1915) by Albert Gos from 1903, mountain guide museum, burger room, panel 6 art and alpinism , Zaniglaser mountain guide association, St. Niklaus 2000.

In the mountain guide museum in St. Niklaus Dorf , the topic of art and alpinism or as part of the connection between the St. Niklaus mountain guides and contemporary painters etc. a. Albert Gos and his son François Gos honored. Albert Gos painted a portrait of the St. Niklaus mountain guide Josef Lochmatter (1872–1915) in 1903 (19 × 28.5 cm oil on canvas).

Web links

Commons : Albert Gos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The music of the painter Albert Gos. Edited by Michel Nikita Pfister, Mülirad-Verlag Altdorf
  2. ↑ a b Mountain Guide Museum, Burgerstube, Table 6 Art and Alpinism , Zaniglaser Mountain Guide Association, St. Niklaus 2000
  3. ↑ Christian Imboden: Mountains: Profession, Vocation, Fate . Rotten Verlag , Visp 2013, ISBN 3-907624-48-3 . Page 169
personal data
SURNAME Gos, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gos, Albert Henri John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, composer, painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1942
Place of death Geneva