Gaudenz Taverna
Gaudenz Taverna (born October 12, 1814 in Chur , † October 22, 1878 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss draftsman and portrait painter .
Life
Taverna came from a middle class family. He was the son of Gaudenz, a landlord and guild master, and Maria (née Pfranger). He lost his father at an early age and his mother allowed him to study, but he should first learn a trade. So he first went to Zurich as an apprentice to a wood turner. When his mother died at the end of his apprenticeship, he went along with a Zurich artist to Rome to there at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome the painting to learn. He then stayed for one year in Munich and one year in Venice. After his return to Switzerland he worked in Chur and Zurich as a genre and portrait painter.
Taverna married Christina Walther von Tartar in Graubünden in 1841.
From 1847 he became a drawing teacher at the Solothurn Cantonal School. Among other things, the later landscape painter Otto Frölicher was his student there. In 1850 he was one of the founders of the Solothurn Art Association. He also drew caricatures for the satirical weekly newspaper Postheiri .
Taverna took part in the rotating exhibitions of the Swiss Art Association with his works in 1864 and 1865. Pictures by Taverna, often executed in a Biedermeier style, are in the Solothurn Art Museum and in the Bündner Art Museum in Chur.
literature
- Taverna, Gaudenz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 484 .
- Gemsjäger in the Rhaetian Alps . In: Miniature Salon: a collection of steel engravings based on famous paintings by living artists . tape 2: 1847-1850 . JD Sauerlander, Frankfurt am Main 1847, p. 46–50 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Gaudenz Taverna in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gemsjäger in the Rhaetian Alps . In: Miniature Salon: a collection of steel engravings based on famous paintings by living artists . tape 2: 1847-1850 . JD Sauerlander, Frankfurt am Main 1847, p. 46–50 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Martin Gisi: Frölicher, Otto . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Huber, Frauenfeld 1905, p. 507-512 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taverna, Gaudenz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss draftsman and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1878 |
| Place of death | Solothurn |