Johann Baptist Weißbrod

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Johann Baptist Weißbrod (born June 19, 1834 in Landsberg am Lech , † November 7, 1912 in Basel ) was a German history and genre painter .

Life

Johann Baptist Weißbrod was born the son of a district doctor. After the early death of his father he came to Munich to live with his grandfather, the gynecologist Johann Baptist von Weißbrod . Weißbrod studied between 1851/53 and 1861 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was trained there by Philipp Foltz, among others . From around 1862/63 Weißbrod was then a student in Gustave Brion's studio in Paris . In 1865 he took part in the Paris Salon .

After a short stay in Munich (around 1864), Weißbrod went to Switzerland and in 1866 became a drawing teacher at the Cantonal School in Aarau . In 1870 he then settled in Basel. There he worked at the drawing school of the non-profit society founded by Isaak Iselin in 1777 and then worked as a drawing and painting teacher in the women's class at the general trade school . In 1906 he retired.

Works (selection)

  • Barbele auprès du chevalier blessé (De Lichtensteiner) , whereabouts unknown.
  • Entombment of Christ (copy after Titian), 1864, whereabouts unknown.
  • Portrait of Henricus Liberti (copy after Anthonis van Dyck), 1864, whereabouts unknown.
  • François Ier et Charles Quint (copy after Richard Parkes Bonington), whereabouts unknown.

literature

  • Swiss Art Association (ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon , Vol. 4, Frauenfeld 1917, p. 685.
  • Swiss Institute for Art Research Zurich and Lausanne (ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art , Zurich 1998, vol. 2, p. 1113.
  • Eva Knels: Weißbrod, Johann Baptist (Gabriel Eduard) . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870 , de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-035006-7 , pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the matriculation database (last accessed on July 9, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Weißbrod, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weißbrod, Johann Baptist Gabriel Eduard (full name); Weissbrod, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1912
Place of death Basel