Johann Baptist Weißbrod
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
- CV at kunstbreite.ch
- Weissbrod, Johann Baptist. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the matriculation database (last accessed on July 9, 2019).
personal data | |
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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 |