Jakob Mayer-Attenhofer
Jakob Mayer-Attenhofer , also Jakob Meyer-Attenhofer (born July 24, 1806 in Leuggern , † July 19, 1885 in Baden Canton Aargau ) was a Swiss landscape painter and uncle of Carl Diethelm Meyer (1840-1884).
Life
Jakob Mayer attended the village school in Leuggern and then the secondary school in Zurzach . In 1819 he was employed as a trainee in the Baden court office and in 1820 as a secretary in the postal office. He went to drawing school twice a week. In 1822 he moved to Neuchâtel , where he learned to color from the local landscape painter.
The painter Gabriel Lory the Younger (1784–1846) encouraged Jakob Mayer to paint landscapes. In 1825 he spent a few weeks in the Bernese Oberland to study there. In the same year he moved to Dresden through other German cities to accompany a copperplate engraver . There he made copies of various paintings for an art dealer.
In his spare time he painted watercolors , which were highly valued by the professor at the Dresden Art Academy Johan Christian Clausen Dahl . Mayer decided to show his works publicly.
On the order of Countess Pálffy, he copied a painting by Claude Lorrain . In 1826 he came to Vienna with a letter of recommendation from the Countess , where Count and Countess Pálffy introduced him to the upper classes, which brought him many commissions. In 1828 he visited Switzerland to study landscapes , but soon returned to Vienna.
In 1831 Mayer traveled to Baden, where he met Elisabeth Brunner, b. Attenhofer, married and took her family name. With her he had four daughters. Through his marriage he became the owner of the Baden spa hotel Zum Raben . In 1838 he went on a trip to Italy. He came to Rome in 1839 via Milan and Genoa . He returned to Baden via Florence and Parma in 1839.
Around 1840 Jakob Mayer-Attenhofer created the views of Baden, which he had reproduced in aquatint style . In 1862 he was elected to the Baden city council and held the post until 1875. In 1862 he sold the hotel and devoted himself exclusively to painting.
literature
- Ulrich Münzel: Jakob Meyer-Attenhofer (1806–1885). In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 536–537 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Art width
- Mayer-Attenhofer, Jakob. In: Sikart
- Sarah Brian Scherer: Meyer [-Attenhofer] Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 26, 2007 , accessed August 7, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer-Attenhofer, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer-Attenhofer, Jakob; Mayer, Jakob (maiden name); Meyer, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leuggern , Canton of Aargau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1885 |
| Place of death | Baden , Canton of Aargau |