Anton Bütler

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Anton Bütler (baptized August 12, 1819 in Auw AG , Switzerland ; † November 18, 1874 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss history, church and landscape painter.

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Anton Bütler was born as the son of the painter Niklaus Bütler and Anna Maria Trutmann (von Küssnacht am Rigi ). He spent his childhood and youth in Küssnacht am Rigi, where the impoverished family had moved around 1820. He received his first artistic training from his father. At the age of sixteen Bütler went to the Munich Academy , where he copied old Flemish painters and assisted Peter von Cornelius in painting frescoes . He began working in Lucerne around 1840, where his family had recently taken up residence. In 1844 he decorated the hall of the Grand Council . He also painted some altarpieces . In 1848 he moved to the Academy in Düsseldorf (according to other sources again Munich) and from 1855 he worked in Rome for two years . In 1865 he moved to his brother, the landscape painter Joseph Niklaus Bütler , in Düsseldorf, but soon returned to Lucerne, where he also spent his old age. His work includes secular and religious history pictures, altar paintings and landscapes. As his last work, he decorated the Tell Chapel in Küssnacht, which his father had already worked on.

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SURNAME Butler, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 12, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Auw AG , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1874
Place of death Lucerne