Johann Caspar Schinz

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Mary with baby Jesus
and the boy John

Johann Caspar Schinz (born April 16, 1797 in Zurich ; † August 9, 1832 there ) was a Swiss painter , draftsman , graphic artist and etcher .

Life

Johann Caspar Schinz was born as the son of the Zurich banker Hans Rudolf Schinz zur Glogen and Anna Katharina Huber. His parents intended him to be a pastor. However, he decided to do an apprenticeship with the engraver Johann Heinrich Lips . Because of an eye disease, he had to give up the profession of copperplate engraver, and in 1815 began teaching oil painting to Johann Kaspar Huber (1752–1827). From August 26, 1816 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Heinrich Maria von Hess .

In 1818 he met the artist Louise Seidler . He went on a study trip to Rome with her and the Zurich painter Daniel Albert Freudweiler , where they approached the Nazarenes . He made friends in Rome with Friedrich Overbeck and the brothers Johannes and Philipp Veit .

In 1821 he visited his parents in Zurich. Due to another eye disease, he returned to Zurich a few years later and married Emerentia Dorothea Hirzel there in 1826. He visited Weimar to apply for a position as a drawing teacher sponsored by Goethe , and Dresden to get to know the art collection there. Schinz was appointed teacher at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich . He died at the age of 35. He left only a few works, mostly on religious subjects in the style of the Nazarenes.

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SURNAME Schinz, Johann Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schinz, Johann Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, draftsman, graphic artist and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1832
Place of death Zurich