Johann Jakob Schalch

Johann Jakob Schalch: Farmer with grazing cows by the river. 1775

Johann Jakob Schalch (born January 23, 1723 in Schaffhausen ; † August 21, 1789 there ) was a Swiss painter .

life and work

Johann Jakob Schalch was a student of Johann Ulrich Schnetzler in Schaffhausen and of the animal painter Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton in Augsburg . He traveled to Germany and France at a young age . In 1750 he married Maria Oechslin in Schaffhausen.

In 1754 he moved to London , where he soon rose to be a sought-after painter in the circles of the royal court. His specialties were animal and landscape paintings. Several of his paintings can still be found in the Royal Collection , the royal collection of paintings. These include The gardens at Kew and The White House, Kew .

In 1763 Johann Jakob Schalch moved to Holland . There he achieved his artistic breakthrough with the well-known equestrian image of the then English ambassador in The Hague . In 1773 he returned to Schaffhausen.

His famous Rhine Falls pictures, which were widely distributed through engravings, made his name known. Johann Jakob Schalch became increasingly blind in old age. He died in 1789 in his country house in the Durstgraben not far from the Rhine Falls.

The Schaffhausen Museum zu Allerheiligen has the largest collection of works by Johann Jakob Schalch.

literature

Carl Brun: Swiss artist lexicon. Vol. 3 (1913), pp. 25 f.
Johann Caspar Füssli : History of the best artists in Switzerland. Vol. 4, Zurich 1779, pp. 154–158.
H. van Hall: Portraits of Dutch painters and other artists of the Low Countries. Amsterdam 1963.
Barbara Schnetzler: Johann Jakob Schalch . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 266–268 ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Johann Jakob Schalch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Werner Rutishauser: Schalch, Johann (Jan) Jakob (Jacob). In: Sikart
Pictures by Johann Jakob Schalch in the electronic gallery of the Royal Collection
A picture of the Rhine Falls by Johann Jakob Schalch in the Museum zu Allerheiligen

Individual evidence

↑ Six were destroyed in the Schaffhausen bombing . See Andreas Rüfenacht: The destroyed art department and the consequences of their destruction as well as catalog of the destroyed works, in: Museum zu Allerheiligen (Hrsg.): Art from rubble. The bombing of the All Saints Museum in 1944 and its consequences , Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-03919-489-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schalch, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH	August 21, 1789
Place of death	Schaffhausen

[1] Six were destroyed in the Schaffhausen bombing . See Andreas Rüfenacht: The destroyed art department and the consequences of their destruction as well as catalog of the destroyed works, in: Museum zu Allerheiligen (Hrsg.): Art from rubble. The bombing of the All Saints Museum in 1944 and its consequences , Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-03919-489-6 .