Johann-Salomon Hegi
Johann-Salomon Hegi (born October 9, 1814 in Zurich ; † December 11, 1896 there ) was a Swiss landscape and genre painter as well as draftsman and caricaturist .
Hegi studied from April 5, 1838 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . In Munich he was friends with Gottfried Keller , who studied painting there from 1840 to 1842, but was not enrolled. Hegi spent the period from 1849 to 1860 in Mexico, mostly in Veracruz . There he created drawings and watercolors from everyday life in the Mexican province. After returning home, he worked in Zurich. I.a. In 1877 he illustrated Gottfried Keller's novella Der Landvogt von Greifensee from the cycle of Zurich novellas .
literature
- Hegi, Johann Salomon . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923.
- Emmanuel Benezit [ed.]; Jacques Busse [arr.]: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. . Nouv. éd., entièrement réfondue = [4. éd.]. Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3020-6 .
- Fridolin Stähli : Endangered Artists, The Correspondence Between Gottfried Keller and Johann Salomon Hegi. Artemis Verlag, Zurich / Munich 1985, ISBN 3-76080663-5 . (= Zurich contributions to German literary and intellectual history, No. 61.)
- Johann-Salomon Hegi: Veracruz de 1849 a 1860. (Spanish edition) Grupo Aluminio, 1989, ISBN 9-68629201-2 .
- Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , 1927, Vol. 4, p. 110.
- Raphael Rezzonico: Johann Salomon Hegi, “artista viajero” (1814–1896). In: Our art monuments: newsletter for members of the Society for Swiss Art History. Vol. 43, 1992, H. 4; Pp. 514-522. Digitized
Web links
Commons : Johann-Salomon Hegi - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Hegi, Johann-Salomon. In: Sikart
- Hegi, Johann Salomon in the German biography
- Works by Johann Salomon Hegi at E-Manuscripta
- Works by Johann-Salomon Hegi at Artnet
- Biography and pictures of Johann-Salomon Hegi
- Johann Salomon Hegi, Gottfried Keller's friend on the website of Peter Meier-Classen
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hegi, Johann-Salomon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hegi, Johann Salomon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape and genre painter as well as draftsman and caricaturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1896 |
| Place of death | Zurich |