Johann Jakob Stadler

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Johann Jakob Stadler , also Jean Stadler (born April 19, 1819 in Zurich ; † October 31, 1855 there ) was a Swiss landscape painter .

Life

family

Johann Jakob Stadler was the son of the canton's state building inspector and master carpenter Hans Caspar Stadler (born March 14, 1786; † 1876) and his wife Susanna (née Morf) (born October 31, 1789). The names of his siblings are known:

His uncle was the architect Hans Conrad Stadler .

education

Because Johann Jakob Stadler, his father's request, the following is a merchant should be, he began after school training in a trading company . Shortly after starting his apprenticeship, it became clear to him that he would rather be a painter, and he informed his parents of this in 1836; this granted him his wish and he began training as a landscape painter with Jakob-Wilhelm Huber (1787–1871), with whom he later maintained a friendly contact.

In July 1840 he finished his training with Huber and traveled to Geneva , where François Diday accepted him as a student. After three years he decided to go to Rome to complete his studies; his teacher recommended that he stay with the study of Swiss nature because he would have to learn a new kind of painting in Italy and thus study from scratch. Initially he followed the advice, but in 1845 he decided to start his own business and traveled to Paris .

Career

In Paris he began to copy the old masters Salomon van Ruysdael and Jan Wijnants in the galleries of the Louvre . Over time, with the help of his father, he set up his own apartment with a studio. His pictures were bought by strangers visiting him and at art exhibitions to which he sent his pictures. In the summer of 1847 he hiked through the mountains in Valais to pick up new motifs. On his return to Paris he visited the forest in Fontainebleau and made copies again in the Louvre.

In winter he used the time to work on paintings based on the studies he had collected in the summer, which he then sent to art exhibitions in Paris and Germany.

At the end of 1847 he decided to return to Zurich and arrived there in July 1848. In the following years he stayed both in Zurich and in the Swiss mountains; During this time the desire to go to Rome arose again, whereby his friends and his older brother advised against it because he would then have to start all over again.

Among his friends there was the painter Rudolf Weymann (1810–1878), with whom he still had regular writing, and in Zurich he was in contact with the artists Rudolf Roller and Leo Bürkli. In 1849 he joined the artist society in Zurich.

Illness and suicide

In 1850 he traveled to Rome, where he fell into a depressive state of mind because doubts about his own talent arose and he regretted his decision to travel to Italy. In his compatriots Salomon Corrodi and Johann Rudolf Bühlmann (1812–1890), from whom he had received a friendly welcome, he saw only competitors who wanted to make his existence there impossible, and all efforts of his friends to take this madness from him failed . This led to the fact that during Christmas he suddenly reproached his friends with that all of this was just a play and that the whole celebration was just lies and deceit and pretense and that everyone present was his enemies.

Even a visit from his eldest brother in May could not change his mind, but only led to the fact that he mistrusted and doubted his brother, who was in contact with compatriots. Even before his brother's return trip to Switzerland, he returned to his family in Zurich at the end of May, where the astonished brother met him. In the period that followed, he said that he was disgusted with picking up a brush, but that he did not hate chalk and pencil as much. Because he doubted himself, he no longer finished the pictures he had begun. He even did not carry out an order from an art lover who wanted to order a picture, because, in his opinion, he had only been persuaded by others to order the picture.

He no longer appeared in the artist society and also avoided dealing with his friends. In the course of time he began to damage his pictures, including those with others, by distorting them with figures and grimaces. Johann Jakob Stadler committed suicide for four years by throwing himself from the top floor of his parents' house.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadler Hans Caspar b. 14 Mar 1786 d. 1876: Pedigrees of the Risler, Schwab, Mauchle and Studerus families. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Stadler family from Zurich: August Conrad Stadler (1816-1901), Prof. Dr. August Stadler (1850-1910), Maria Wilhelmine Pestalozzi-Stadler (1853-1941). Family estate, 1832-1922 (inventory). In: Online archive catalog of the Zurich City Archives. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Weinmann, Rudolf [Weymann, Rudolf . ] In: Sikart
personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stadler, Jean; Stadler, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1855
Place of death Zurich