Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder

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The Red Mountains (1804-1820)

Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder (born December 31, 1758 in Zollikon near Zurich , † January 25, 1823 in Feuerthalen ) was a Swiss porcelain painter , landscape draftsman and painter in the gouache technique , art teacher, art publisher and copperplate engraver .

Life

Johann Heinrich Bleuler initially trained as a porcelain painter in the porcelain and faience manufactory in Schooren in Kilchberg. He settled in Feuerthalen at the beginning of the 1780s. In 1788 he founded an art school there, the Bleuerische Malschule . Between 1799 and 1804 Bleuler lived and worked temporarily at Laufen Castle near Schaffhausen , before returning to Feuerthalen.

Bleuler he switched to the Swiss views popular at the time (namely after Ludwig Hess ). He also made his own landscape gouaches, such as von Blankenburg in Switzerland. A landscape panorama of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck as seen from Pariner Berg is dated around 1820 . Bleuler's watercolors can be found in the Bühlmann collection at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich . In the last years of his life, Bleuler devoted himself mainly to painting flowers.

The Bleulerische painting school

The wealthy Johann Heinrich Bleuler had four children.

His eldest son of the same name, Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger (1787–1857), is considered the most important member of the family and was successful as a vedute painter in Germany.

The second son Johann Ludwig Bleuler (1792–1850) worked as a landscape draftsman and art dealer in Schaffhausen and Laufen.

Bleuler took two of his godchildren into the household after the death of their parents and taught them painting, Johann Heinrich Uster (1774–1866), born in 1774, who married Bleuler's daughter Karoline, and Johann Heinrich Wirz (1785–1866), born in 1785 ). Bleuler also adopted Anna Bose, who after marrying Johann Heinrich Wirz worked as Nanette (Anna) Wirz-Bleuler (1783–1851) as a gouache painter. A total of about 25 artists are known who emerged from the Bleuler School of Painting.

Works

  • The Red Mountains (between 1804 and 1820, 32 × 47 cm, gouached outline etching on paper, today in the Museum Haus Martfeld in Schwelm )
  • View of Wupperfeld and Barmen (around 1805, 32 × 47 cm, gouached outline etching on paper)
  • View of Elberfeld (around 1805, 32 × 47 cm, gouached outline etching on paper)

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Bleuler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Lindtke: To an old landscape panorama . In: The car . 1960, pp. 60-65 (with illustration); 100 × 380 cm, oil on canvas, in the St. Annen Museum Lübeck since 1921 .
  2. ↑ Hans Vollmer: Bleuler, Joh. Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 115 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Carl Seidel : The Bleuler family of painters in Feuerthalen. In: Berliner Kunst-Blatt. Issue 1, 1828, ZDB -ID 542811-7 , pp. 148-153 opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de .
  4. ↑ Anne Peter: The museum presents (13): The "Red Mountains". In: Contributions to the local history of the city of Schwelm and its surroundings. No. 44, 1994, pp. 140-143.
personal data
SURNAME Bleuler, Johann Heinrich the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Zollikon near Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1823
Place of death Feuerthalen