Johann Baptist Laule

Johann Baptist Laule (born September 20, 1817 in Sargans , Canton St. Gallen , Switzerland ; died June 1, 1895 in Schönenbach near Furtwangen ) was a German painter .

In Switzerland Sargans born, where his originating from the Black Forest parents had emigrated, Johann Baptist Laule came in the 1840s to Furtwangen , where he initially worked as a sign painter watches. Nothing is known about his youth and training; He presumably followed his older brother Josef, who worked for the music manufacturer Martin Blessing (1774–1847) in Furtwangen. The young Hans Thoma began an apprenticeship with Laule, which he soon had to break off due to lack of money. Laule produced numerous sample dials for the sample collection of the watchmaking school founded by Robert Gerwig in Furtwangen in 1850 and later portraits of pioneers of the Black Forest watch industry for the Furtwang trade hall. In addition to portrait painting, genre paintings and Black Forest landscapes were also created, as well as religious themes in the late Nazarene style . The art-loving bachelor was a close friend of the painter brothers Lukas and Johann Baptist Kirner . Among their mutual acquaintances was the writer Berthold Auerbach , to whom the Furtwang artist friends provided material for his Black Forest stories.

literature

• Elke Schön: Johann Baptist Laule - devoted to people . In: Furtwangen. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2, 1873-1948 , Furtwangen im Schwarzwald 2009, pp. 586-593.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For example St. Nicholas Day in the Black Forest , 1858, Augustinermuseum Freiburg i. Br., ( Online collection )
2. ↑ Publicly owned works today, mainly in the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen and in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg im Breisgau.