Albert Walch

Albert Walch (born October 10, 1816 in Augsburg , † March 25, 1882 in Bern ) was a German painter who worked in Bern.

Life

Albert Walch was the son of the painter and publisher Johann Sebastian Walch (1787–1840). He received his training from 1833 at the Munich Art Academy with Peter von Cornelius . He then worked at his father's and brother Adolf Walch's (1815–1886) publishing house until he went to Rome from 1847 to 1849. From 1849 he lived in Bern, where he also worked as a teacher at the art school from 1871 until his death.

Standing Helvetia

He painted portraits, historical and genre pictures, designed festival decorations, coins and handicrafts. The designs for the standing Helvetia and the head of Helvetia for the Swiss coins are his best-known to this day.

Works

• 68 images from the biblical story of the Old Testament based on drawings by Albert Walch. Edited with text for the youth. Verlag der Joh. Walch'schen Kunst- und Landkartenhandlung, Augsburg 1843 (17 lithographic plates with 68 drawings by Albert Walch).
• Pictures from the biblical story of the Old and New Testament with text for the youth, edited from drawings by Albert Walch. Walch, Augsburg 1847 (27 plates with 108 colored steel engravings after drawings by Albert Walch).
• Eduard von Ambach : The All Souls Sunday, or: the power of passions a story from the French horror and the Corsican liberation struggle; for the more mature youth; with a steel engraving. Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg 1843, 2nd edition 1854 (1 steel engraving after Albert Walch by Carl Mayer , sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10758951_00006.html illustration ).
• Eduard von Ambach: Fatherland love and loyalty in battle and death, or Richard the noble mountain hunter at Königs-See: a historical story for the more mature youth. Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg 1843 (1 steel engraving after Albert Walch by Carl Mayer, illustration ).

• Portrait of the iron merchant Franz Anton Hug, Augsburg, lithograph 1846
• Portrait of Karl Siller, Augsburg, lithograph 1846
• Portrait of the wine merchant Franz Joseph Michel, Augsburg, lithograph 1846
• numerous portraits of citizens of Bern

Coin designs

Head of Helvetia

• 1874: Two francs , standing Helvetia (minted to this day)
• 1875: One- franc piece and ½ franc piece , standing Helvetia (minted to this day)
• 1883: 20 franc gold coin, head of Helvetia (struck on numerous Swiss coins to this day)

literature

• Heinrich Türler : Walch, Albert. In: Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon , Volume 3. Frauenfeld 1913, p. 418 ( digitized version ).
• Albert Haemmerle : The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg, 2, 1936/37, pp. 181–201, here pp. 191–192.
• Walch, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 65 .

Web links

• Works on artnet.de
• Walch, Albert. In: Sikart

Remarks

1. ↑ Matriculation entry .
2. ↑ See the portrait documentation, Burgerbibliothek Bern - online archive catalog input “Walch”, e.g. B. Wattenwyl, Caroline Henriette Anna von Wattenwyl (1851) , Albert Maurice Edmond de Grenus (1854) , Bernhard Friedrich Studer (1860) .
3. ↑ Figure .