Gabriel Lory the Younger
Gabriel Lory the Younger (also Mathias Gabriel Lori ; born June 21, 1784 in Bern ; † August 25, 1846 ibid) was a Swiss landscape painter , etcher , watercolorist , draftsman and son of Gabriel Lory the Elder .
Life
Gabriel Lory the Younger was his father's student. In 1797 he moved with him to Herisau , where he worked on the processing of the views of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In 1805 he traveled to Neuchâtel and participated with his father in the processing of the Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon . In Neuchâtel he made friends with the painter Maximilien de Meuron , whom he accompanied on trips to Paris, Switzerland and Italy.
In 1812 he married Henriette-Louise de Meuron von Orbe. In Neuchâtel he got the position of a drawing teacher at the city school, while his wife directed the publication of his views. Lory got to know the Neuchâtel banker Count Frédéric de Pourtalès and accompanied him on several trips to Italy.
In 1819 both of his children died. After that, Lory and his wife lived in Bern during the summer and Neuchâtel during the winter. In the following years he published several works with César Henri Montvert (1784–1848) with images of Swiss costumes and views from the Bernese Oberland and the rest of Switzerland. In 1828 he visited Paris and was received at court.
In 1832 Lory moved to Bern and became a member of the Bernese Artists' Society. He went on study trips through the various regions of Switzerland and Italy. He spent the winter months from 1834 to 1835 and 1835 to 1836 in Berlin , where he was received at court and received the title of extraordinary professor at the academy.
Because of his poor health, he spent the winter months from 1841 to 1842 and from 1842 to 1843 in Nice . In 1846 he visited Frankfurt am Main , where he met his friend and student Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern . A few weeks later he died of a heart attack.
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 fils). In: Sikart (status: 1978/2011), accessed on August 8, 2017.
- Tapan Bhattacharya: Lory, Gabriel (Fils). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Collections on Gabriel Lory in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lory, Gabriel the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lori, Mathias Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1846 |
| Place of death | Bern |