Jacques-Henri Juillerat

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Jacques-Henri Juillerat (born May 3, 1777 in Münster near Bern , † March 6, 1860 in Bern ) was a Swiss landscape painter .

Juillerat received his first drawing lessons at Bellelay Abbey , continued his apprenticeship in Neuchâtel , and worked in Basel , where his teachers Peter Birmann and Marquard Wocher were. Eventually he came to Zurich and became a student of Johann Heinrich Wüest , who gave him lessons in oil painting.

Juillerat returned to Basel and worked there as an illustrator for the engraver and art dealer Christian von Mechel . In 1812 he became a drawing teacher at the school in Delémont . In 1820 he settled in Bern and in 1823 became an art teacher at the Bern Academy of Art . From 1828 to 1855 he lived in Italy , then again in Bern. He regularly took part in the Swiss and Italian exhibitions.

Juillerat was brother-in-law and first teacher of the painter Marie-Christine Mouillet (1802–1885).

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 6. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1838, p. 503 ( Digitized ).
• Juillerat, Jacques Henri . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 302 .
• Antonella Casassas: Juillerat, Jacques Henri . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 78, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023183-0 , p. 464.

Web links

Commons : Jacques Henri Juillerat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jacques Henri Juillerat. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Jacques-Henri Juillerat. In: Sikart
• Biography on Boris Wilnitsky Fine Arts