Johann Emanuel Locher
Johann Emanuel Locher (born December 4, 1769 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † January 13, 1840 ) was a Swiss painter and etcher .
Life
Johann Emanuel Locher was born in 1769 in Freiburg in Üechtland, the son of the artist Gottfried Locher , who came from Mengen , and his Marie-Françoise Rotzer. Like his brother François (1765–1799), he received his artistic training in his father's studio. His participation in the father's altarpieces and frescoes is assured.
After leaving his father's workshop, Johann Emanuel Locher, like most of his colleagues, switched to gouache etchings of Swiss traditional costumes . He also worked as a portrait and miniature painter . In 1813 he temporarily moved to Basel . From 1820 he edited the series Recueil des Portraits Suisses des 22 Cantons together with Markus Dinkel .
Following his father's position as a church painter , but already in the classicism style , Johann Emanuel Locher painted the altarpiece with Karl Borromeo for the church of St. Charles der RR in 1811 . PP. Cordeliers in Freiburg im Üechtland. Locher is less known as a painter of votive pictures for the Mariahilf chapels in Düdingen or Loreto near Freiburg i.Üe.
Locher died in 1840. Thieme-Becker and other authors give the year of death 1814 is incorrect.
Works
- Jakob Samuel Wyttenbach , portrait in oil, 1805, lost.
- Karl Borromeo , altarpiece for the Franciscan Church Freiburg i.Üe., 1811.
- Elisabetha Grossmann , la belle batelière de Brienz , gouached aquatint, collection of the British Museum, erroneously attributed to Gottfried Locher
- Recueil de portraits et costumes Suisses des 22 cantons accompagné d'un supplément , together with Markus Dinkel, Johann Peter Lamy, Bern 1820–1829.
Web links
- Locher, Jean-Emmanuel. In: Sikart
- Recueil de portraits et costumes Suisses des 22 cantons accompagné d'un supplément in the Gugelmann Collection (database of the Swiss National Library )
- Johann Emanuel Locher: Graphics in the Fundaziun Capauliana
Individual evidence
- ↑ C. Elisabeth Florack: Contribution à l'étude de la peinture à l'époque baroque à Friborg, Fragnière Frères, 1932, p 38
- ↑ René Creux, Iso Baumer: Die Bilderwelt des Volkes: Customs and Faith, Verlag Huber, 1980, p. 10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Locher, Johann Emanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Locher, Jean-Emmanuel; Locher, Emmanuel; Locher, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Üechtland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1840 |