Gregor Brandmüller

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Self-portrait Brandmüller, draftsman Johann Georg Bergmüller
Gregoire Brandmuller in Volume IV of Jean-Baptiste Descamps «La Vie des Peintres…»

Gregor Brandmüller (born August 25, 1661 in Basel ; † June 7, 1691 there ) was a Swiss painter . He worked as a leading portraitist and history painter, particularly for the margravial Baden and Württemberg courts. "His lively portraits, painted with impressive characteristics, deserve admiration."

Live and act

Gregor Brandmüller was a son of the goldsmith and councilor of the same name and Anna Polybia Staehelin. He married Anna Catharina Hummel in 1686.

After an apprenticeship with the portraitist Hans Caspar Meyer (1648–1685) in Basel, he worked from 1678 to 1680 in Charles Le Brun's studio in Paris . He was called back to Paris in 1681 to help paint the Palace of Versailles . In 1684 he received two gold medals and three prizes at the Académie , including the Premier Grand Prix . Gregor Brandmüller won the Prix ​​de Rome in 1684 with his painting Enosch , the son of the Set begins to call out the name of the Lord ( Enos fils de Seth, commence à invoquer le nom du seigneur ) and thus received a scholarship for a study trip to Rome, where he Lived in the Villa Medici in 1884 . From 1685 he moved back to Basel and became part of the guild there in 1686. A trip to Prague mentioned by Descamps and Durdent does not seem to have taken place, but he was briefly in England and Holland.

Famous works

Gregor Brandmüller: Les Trésors de l'Amérique , Musée du Nouveau Monde , La Rochelle

The painting The Treasures of America ( Les Trésors de l'Amérique ) from 1682 hangs in the Museum of the New World ( Musée du Nouveau Monde ) in La Rochelle .

It shows the portraits of four children of the client, who probably made his money around the world at the expense of Africa. The child in the arms of his black nurse with a slave collar allegorically represents Africa, to the left of which the Indian child symbolizes America, whose treasures lie in the Indian woven basket, next to the European child and the Asian child dressed in silk .

One of his most famous works is the Descent from the Cross in the Capuchin Church of Dornach SO .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yvonne Boerlin-Brodbeck: Brandmüller, Gregor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Archives de l'art français (1851)
  3. ↑ La Lousiane francaise.
  4. ↑ Brandmüller, Georg. In: Michael Bryan (Author), Robert Edmund Graves, Sir Walter Armstrong (Ed.): Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. 1886-1889.

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SURNAME Brandmüller, Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandmüller, Georg; Brandmuller, Gregoire; Brandt-Muller, Grégoire; Brand-Muller, Grégoire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1691
Place of death Basel