Martin Disteli

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Self-portrait around 1840
Battle of the Hülftenschanz
Professor Alois Fuchs before the court of heretics, 1834

Martin Disteli (born May 28, 1802 in Olten , † March 18, 1844 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss painter and liberal political cartoonist.

Disteli was born as the son of Urs Martin, a rich silk goods manufacturer (bankruptcy in 1829) and the tailor's daughter Anna Maria née. Kümmerli, born. His sister Elise Johanna married the politician Joachim Leonz Eder in 1835 . Disteli was married to the farmer's daughter Theresa Gisiger.

Even during his studies in Lucerne and Jena, Disteli demonstrated a rare talent for extracting its comical aspects from public life and sketching them in the best possible way; Examples of his work are preserved in the dungeon of the University of Jena . Because of his participation in the fraternity expelled - he joined in 1822 the Jenaischen fraternity at -, returned Disteli in the homeland and now began to use his art for a living. He painted figureheads and portraits , drew Swiss battles, animals for Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich's fables, historical pictures for the Swiss paperback Alpenrosen and others

He also founded a drawing school in his hometown and was consequently appointed as a drawing teacher at the higher education and training institute of the canton of Solothurn in 1836 . In the Landwehr of the canton of Solothurn he rose to lieutenant colonel and head of the second battalion , in 1836 he assisted the inhabitants of Basel-Land in their liberal uprising against Basel-Stadt , thereby gaining honorary citizenship in the Basel countryside .

In his practical way, in his crude attacks in the field of politics and religion, he never attacked systems, but always attacked personalities, and especially whipped those whom he considered hypocrites or wind flags. He showed this particularly in his Swiss picture calendar , for which Government Councilor Peter Jakob Felber wrote the texts.

The Liestal Poet and City Museum keeps parts of his work and testimonies . In his hometown of Olten , a train station underpass, his birthplace and a street are named after him.

literature

  • Jacob Achilles Mähly:  Disteli, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 256.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 207.
  • Herbert Koch: The robbery of the Sabine women - a Jena prison picture. In: Old and new from Jena. A home book from the middle Saale valley. Editor: Deutscher Kulturbund Jena (1960), pp. 23–26.
  • Lucien Leitess; Irma Noseda ; Bernhard Wiebel: And the people stand cursing in front of their pictures. Martin Disteli [1802 - 1844] Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten 1978, ISBN 978-3-7209-0001-0 .
  • Volker Wahl: From the history of the Jena university prison. In: Jena should live. Contributions to the historical student life at the University of Jena. Jena (Jenaer Reden und Schriften 1991), pp. 57–85.
  • Gottfried Wälchli:  Disteli, Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 744 ( digitized version ).
  • Gottfried Wächli: On Martin Disteli's hundredth anniversary of death In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter , Vol. 2, 1944, pp. 6-7.
  • Hans Brunner: Martin Disteli at the University of Freiburg and Jena . In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter , Vol. 54, 1996, pp. 22-25.

Web links

Commons : Martin Disteli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philippe Kaenel: Martin Disteli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 9, 2004 , accessed October 20, 2017 .
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 207.
  3. ^ WiB Solutions AG: Martin Disteli's birthplace. Retrieved on July 6, 2020 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Disteli, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Olten
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1844
Place of death Solothurn