Franz Jakob Anton Kottmann

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Franz Jakob Anton Kottmann (born March 10, 1783 in Schongau , † April 2, 1844 in Marseille ) was a Swiss painter and officer.

Life

Franz Jakob Anton Kottmann was one of the sons of the farmer, landlord and subordinate Johann Kottmann in Schongau. The Solothurn Cantonal Physician Johann Karl Kottmann was his older brother. After attending grammar school in Lucerne until 1798, he was a student of the painter Johann Caspar Moos (1774–1835) in Zug until 1801 . From 1801 to 1804 he studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris , where he was a student of Jean-Frédéric Schall (1752-1825). From 1804 to 1807 he worked as a portraitist in Switzerland. In 1807 he joined the Spanish Swiss Regiment No. 3 as a cadet and was wounded and captured by a knee shot in the Battle of Bailén . From 1808 he served as a painter and military draftsman in the French service in the Royal-Étranger Regiment and was promoted to captain in 1810. In 1813 he returned to his homeland from Paris and was reactivated for a short time in the 1st Swiss Guard Regiment in 1814 . In 1815 he worked as a miniature painter in Jacques Augustin's studio in Paris. He was again active as a grenadier captain from 1816 to 1826 and covered the retreat from the Tuileries Palace as a lieutenant colonel in the July Revolution of 1830 . In the late summer of 1830, Kottmann was again active as a painter in Switzerland and especially portrayed army officers . From 1831 to 1836 he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Swiss General Staff . He spent the last years of his life as a collector specializing in fossils in the south of France.

Kottmann died of paralysis in Marseille. His portraits document Swiss mercenaries as well as the mercenary history of Swiss troops in French service for the Bourbon royal house 1814–1830 and are in the National Museum Zurich and in his estate in the Central and University Library in Lucerne . About 100 of these portraits were lithographed by Godefroy Engelmann in Paris. Kottmann's oil studies are kept in the Solothurn Art Museum .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moos (Muos), Kaspar (Joh. K.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 107 .
personal data
SURNAME Kottmann, Franz Jakob Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Schongau
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1844
Place of death Marseille