Georg Anton Gangyner
Georg Anton Gangyner , also Georg Anton Gangginer or Georg Anton Ganginer (born October 29, 1807 in Lachen SZ ; † December 17, 1876 there ) was a Swiss portrait and vedute painter .
Life
Georg Anton Gangyner received his first music lessons from the Lachner village school teacher Franz Joachim Raff. He then became an apprentice to the painter Franz Joseph Menteler in Lachen and to the portrait and history painter Johann Kaspar Moos (1774–1835) in Zug.
Gangyner studied from April 16, 1823 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . After completing his studies, he went on study trips abroad and visited a. a. Paris . In 1830 he continued his studies at the Munich Academy with Melchior Paul von Deschwanden .
From 1833 to 1834 he worked in St. Gallen , from 1835 he became a drawing teacher in Glarus .
In 1844 he married Anna Maria Katharina Theiler, with whom he had two sons, but who died after three years of marriage. As a widower, he lived in Frauenfeld from 1848 to 1852 . In 1851 he married Maria Anna Aloisia Mächler from Rapperswil. This second, childless marriage ended in divorce in 1872.
In 1852 he returned to Lachen and moved into his father's house. In Lachen, he worked as a portrait and vedute painter and drawing teacher as well as a musician. He portrayed many personalities from society and politics. His vedute pictures are valuable documents of his epoch. Among his students was u. a. Marius Beul . Gangyner numbered his pictures from 1825 to 1842. During this period 581 works were created, of which around 200 are still in existence today. In 1854 Gangyner was elected president of the local Cecilia choir as an outstanding tenor and violinist.
literature
- WW: Gangyner, Georg Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 160 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Veronika Feller-Vest: Georg Anton Gangyner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Georg Anton Gangyner in the German biography
- Georg Anton Gangyner. In: Sikart
- Gangyner's biography on the website of the municipality of Lachen SZ
- Entry on Gangyner in the register of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
- Unique artist and patron , Schwyz Kultur from September 19, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gangyner, Georg Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gangginer, Georg Anton; Ganginer, Georg Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss portrait and vedute painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laughter SZ |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1876 |
| Place of death | Laughter SZ |