Edouard de Pourtalès-Pury
Édouard de Pourtalès-Pury (born January 1, 1802 in Neuchâtel ; † July 1, 1885 ibid) was a Swiss landscape painter .
He came from the Huguenot , Switzerland-based noble family Pourtalès .
After a prematurely discontinued training at the Berlin cadet institute , he returned to Switzerland and became a student of Maximilien de Meuron . Following his advice, he traveled to Rome with August von Bonstetten in 1830 and met the Swiss painters Louis Léopold Robert and Aurèle Robert there . He also visited Florence and Naples . During his stay in Italy he created numerous landscapes. Back in Switzerland, he mainly painted views from around Neuchâtel and the Bernese Oberland .
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 11. E. A. Fleischmann, Munich 1841, p. 554 ( Digitized ).
- Carl Brun (editor): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 2. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, p. 565 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Commons : Edouard de Pourtalès-Pury - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Pourtales-Pury, Edouard. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Pourtalès, Edouard de. In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pourtalès-Pury, Edouard de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pourtalès-Pury, Édouard de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuchâtel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1885 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel |