Gottlieb Emanuel Wysard

Gottlieb Emanuel Wysard: Les Caresseurs d'Oberhasli , gouache (around 1820)

Gottlieb Emanuel Wysard (born June 16, 1789 in Bern , † June 18, 1837 in Biel ) was a Swiss painter and etcher .

Life

Gottlieb Emanuel Wysard was born in Bern in 1789. From around 1810 he settled in Biel. Wysard worked as a watercolor and Goauchen painter. His few verifiable portraits are under the influence of Markus Dinkel . Wysard mainly painted and etched portraits and costumes according to his own designs, based on Gottfried Locher and other Swiss minor masters . An advertisement by Wysard from 1819 shows that he was working in Bern again and offering Swiss traditional costumes in the English style. As a commercial artist, he engraved local views, business cards, maps and military certifications. Gottlieb Emanuel Wysard married the artist Elise Wysard-Füchslin , with whom he worked closely until the divorce in 1823. He died in Biel in 1837.

reception

In 1857 Wysard was ranked among the best Bernese artists of his time with Georg Volmar, Gabriel Lory, Franz Niklaus König , Rheiner, Daniel Lafond and Sigmund Freudenberger . Wysard, who works specifically for English travelers, is well represented in British collections. The Kunstmuseum Bern has several of his works in its collection.

Works (selection)

Portrait you Dr. med. Alexander Bloesch-Moser (1778–184) , art collection of the city of Biel.
Les Carresseurs d'Oberhasli and Les Amants du Canton de Berne , gouaches and gouached outline etchings.
Costumes D'Oberhasli dans le Ct de Berne , colored aquatint etchings.

Web links

Commons : Gottlieb Emanuel Wysard - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Supplement to the Aargauer Zeitung of September 18, 1819, No. 50.
^ Charles Schaub, Eusèbe Henri Gaullieur: The picturesque Switzerland. In: Switzerland, its history, geography and statistics, together with an overview of the antiquities, literature, art and industry of the 22 cantons, Volume 2. Gruaz, Geneva / Basel 1857, p. 152.

personal data
SURNAME	Wysard, Gottlieb Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wisard, Gottlieb Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss portrait and costume painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bern
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1837
Place of death	Biel

[1] Supplement to the Aargauer Zeitung of September 18, 1819, No. 50.

[2] Charles Schaub, Eusèbe Henri Gaullieur: The picturesque Switzerland. In: Switzerland, its history, geography and statistics, together with an overview of the antiquities, literature, art and industry of the 22 cantons, Volume 2. Gruaz, Geneva / Basel 1857, p. 152.