Gabriel Lory the Elder
Gabriel Lory the Elder (also Gabriel Ludwig Lori, born June 20, 1763 in Bern ; † November 12, 1840 ibid) was a Swiss landscape painter , etcher , watercolorist , draftsman and father of Gabriel Lory the Younger .
Life
Gabriel Lory the Elder learned the painting trade as a colorist for etchings in Bern with Johann Ludwig Aberli and Caspar Wolf , then in Geneva with Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761-1824) and Jean-François Albanis de Beaumont (1755-1812). He found a job in St. Gallen with the publisher Bartholomäus Fehr, whose sister he married Wilborada.
From 1784 Lory worked again in Bern, editing colored landscape views. Around 1787 he published art sheets with Simon Daniel Lafond, mostly with motifs from the Bernese Oberland, later also with landscapes from Italian-speaking Switzerland, the canton of Bern and central Switzerland.
In 1797 he worked with Simon Daniel Lafond and Karl Ludwig Zehender. Gabriel Lory's views also became known abroad. In 1795 a compilation of his Swiss views was published in Leipzig . In the same year he moved with his son to Herisau , where they worked on the processing of the views of Moscow and St. Petersburg. His employees also included his nephew Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz and a large number of artists who all worked in Bern. In 1801 Lory returned to Bern.
In 1805 he was called to Neuchâtel by the publisher Jean-Frédéric d'Ostervald . Together with his son he created Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon (1811) and Voyage pittoresque dans la vallée de Chamouni et autour du Montblanc (1815).
In 1812 Lory settled in Bern and became a co-founder of the Bernese Artists' Society. Two years after the death of his wife, he married Barbara Fuchser from Oberdiessbach in 1816. In 1818 Lory was elected a member of the Academic Arts Committee.
literature
- Conrad Mandach : Deux peintres suisses: Gabriel Lory le père (1763-1840) and Gabriel Lory le fils (1784-1846). Haeschel-Dufey, Lausanne 1920 (reprint: Éditions Slatkine, Genève 1978, ISBN 3-05-021777-4 ).
Web links
- Fabian Perren: Lory, Gabriel (called Lory père). In: Sikart (status: 2011), accessed on August 8, 2017.
- Tapan Bhattacharya: Lory, Gabriel (Père). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Collections on Gabriel Lory in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lory, Gabriel the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lori, Gabriel Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1763 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1840 |
| Place of death | Bern |