Jakob Emanuel Handmann
Jakob Emanuel hand man (* 16th August 1718 in Basel , † 3. November 1781 in Bern ) was a Swiss portrait - painter .
Life
Jakob Emanuel was the ninth of fourteen children of the baker and later bailiff of Waldenburg , Johann Jakob Handmann and his wife Anna Maria Rispach. He is said to have broken off an apprenticeship as a sword sweeper to become a painter. Between 1735 and 1739 Handmann completed an apprenticeship with Johann Ulrich Schnetzler in Schaffhausen as a plasterer and ceiling painter. In 1740 he was accepted into the Guild of Heaven in Basel . He then went on study trips to, among others, Paris to Jean Restout , from 1742 to Rome and 1745 to Naples . In 1746 he returned to Basel and in 1747 went to Bern, where he settled down and opened his own studio. Through the mediation of the Estonian nobleman and Colonel Carl Friedrich von Staal, Handmann became a member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna in 1773 .
plant
Handmann, who almost exclusively specialized in portraiture, succeeded in creating a balance between representative portraits and intimate friendship portraits. This made him one of the most successful Bernese painters. Several portraits of the mayor in the gallery of the Bern City Library are his work. He not only worked for the patriciate , but also portrayed scientists, doctors, artists and craftsmen in oil paintings and pastels. There are also a few group pictures, a few genre and landscape pictures as well as history pictures, such as the Muses' cycle from 1775. 500 works can be ascribed to him.
The quality of his pictures varied depending on the client, especially the often schematic decoration, while the faces are carefully worked out and show individual features as well as inner attitude and emotion. With this, Handmann left the rococo conventions and pointed to a more individual approach.
literature
- Thomas Freivogel: Emanuel Handmann 1718–1781 - A Basel portraitist in Bern at the end of the Rococo period. Murten 2002. ISBN 3-85654-855-6 .
- Thomas Freivogel: Two Friedrich portraits by Emanuel Handmann . In: Jürgen Ziechmann (ed.): Friderician miniatures. Vol. 2. Oldenburg 1991, pp. 189-201.
- Margarete Pfister-Burkhalter: Handmann, Jakob Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 609 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Otto Freiherr von Taube : Handmann, Emanuel . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 583-585 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Thomas Freivogel: Handmann, Emanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Thomas Freivogel: Handmann, Jakob Emanuel. In: Sikart
- Literature by and about Jakob Emanuel Handmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Holdings on Jakob Emanuel Handmann in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Freivogel: Handmann, Jakob Emanuel. In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Handmann, Jakob Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1718 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1781 |
| Place of death | Bern |