Franz Niklaus König

Franz Niklaus König, self-portrait, 1827

Franz Niklaus König, the Zytglogge from the west, 1817.

Franz Niklaus König (born April 6, 1765 in Bern ; † March 27, 1832 ) was a Swiss genre and portrait painter .

After training with Tiberius and Marquard Wocher, Sigmund Freudenberger and Balthasar Anton Dunker , he made a name for himself with traditional costumes , rural genre scenes and landscapes . He had great success with his banners , which he presented while traveling in Switzerland, Germany and France for an entrance fee. Johann Heinrich Meyer and Goethe , for whom he gave a private screening, critically appraised the fashionable transparent paintings of König. In 1797 he moved with his family to the Bernese Oberland and in 1798 he took part in the battle against the French as captain of the artillery . He was one of the initiators of the first Unspunnen festivals in 1805 and 1808 .

literature

Tapan Bhattacharya: Franz Niklaus König. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Literature by and about Franz Niklaus König in the catalog of the German National Library
Bloesch .: King, Franz Niklaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 505 f.
Marcus Bourquin: Franz Niklaus König. Life and Work (1765-1832). [Dissertation University of Bern], Bern: Paul Haupt, 1963 (Berner Heimatbücher 94/95).
Reto Caluori: Franz Niklaus König . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1020 f.
Thomas Klöti: Transparent constellations of the Bernese minor master Franz Niklaus König . Weinfelden, 2005 ( full text)
Willibald Künzli: Franz Niklaus König. In: The Bern Week in Words and Images , Vol. 27, 1937, pp. 791–793. ( e-periodica )

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personal data
SURNAME	King, Franz Niklaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bern
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1832