Hans Conrad Hitz
Hans Conrad Hitz (born December 23, 1798 in Langnau am Albis , † July 10, 1866 in Munich ) was a Swiss portrait painter who worked in Munich and German-speaking Switzerland.
biography
Hans Conrad Hitz, born the son of a village school teacher, received his first drawing lessons from his father. From 1810 to 1826 he worked as a plate painter in the faience factory in Kilchberg on Lake Zurich . In addition, he became a student of Heinrich Pfenninger in Zurich and, from 1826, of Daniel Albert Freudweiler . He worked as a watercolor portraitist.
From November 3, 1827, Hitz studied portrait painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich and continued to paint portraits. After completing his studies, he came to the studio of the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler , where he helped him carry out portraits. There he began to paint in oil.
After his return to Switzerland, Hitz married Luise Hanhart in 1833, their daughter Sophie Luise was born in 1835. From 1846 to 1848 he lived in Aarau. In Zurich, Hitz portrayed the future Swiss President Jonas Furrer . In Munich he portrayed the director of the art academy, Peter von Cornelius , and the writer and art critic Gottfried Keller , who published an obituary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung after the artist's death .
Hitz was friends with the Nazarenes Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess . He was considered a painter of the rising bourgeoisie: the industrialists, merchants and their families. The works Hans Conrad Hitz 'are in the collections of the following museums: Aargauer Kunsthaus , Bavarian National Museum , Thurn und Taxis-Museum , Kunstmuseum St. Gallen , Kunstmuseum Winterthur , Kunsthaus Zurich , Swiss National Museum and National Museum in Zurich .
literature
- Gottfried Keller: Obituary Conrad Hitz. in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 26, 1866.
- Hitz, Hans Conrad . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924.
- Bénézit 1976
- Brun 1905-1917
- Busses 1977
- Witt Checklist 1978
Web links
- Regine Helbling: Hitz, Hans Conrad. In: Sikart
- Tapan Bhattacharya: Hitz, Hans Conrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hans Conrad Hitz at Kunstbreite
- Matriculation Book Academy Munich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hitz, Hans Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hitz, Hans Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langnau am Albis |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1866 |
| Place of death | Munich |