Johann Jakob Ulrich (landscape painter)

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Forest stream in the sunshine, 1855

Johann Jakob Ulrich (born February 28, 1798 in Andelfingen ; † March 17, 1877 in Zurich ) was a Swiss draftsman and painter .

Life

Due to the uneasy situation in the border area with France, Ulrich first grew up with his grandparents in Weisslingen , and later he attended schools in Winterthur and Zurich . At the instigation of his father Johann Jakob Ulrich-Meyer (1769-1840; Landschreiber of Andelfingen and later publisher in Zurich) Ulrich initially trained as a merchant, he from spring 1816 in in Zurich Paris continued Co. Bankhaus Paturle, Lepin &.

On the mediation of Paturle, Ulrich wrote himself in 1822 - initially while he was working at the bank - in Jean-Victor Bertin's studio , in which Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was also working. In 1823 he moved to the studio of the three Leprince brothers, and in 1824 worked with Théodore Gudin in Dieppe until he moved into his own studio in Paris in 1825.

Southern Landscape, 1834

Between 1828 and 1830 Ulrich traveled to Naples , Rome and Sicily , where he made numerous sketches. In 1832 and 1835 he stayed in England for some time. There he evidently studied the works of John Constable , with which he was first confronted in 1824 in the Paris Salon . His early works reveal Constable's influence with their coloring, low horizons and detailed observation of the cloudy sky. Another artist with whose works Ulrich's paintings can be compared is Eugène Boudin , who made use of light and water in a similar way to Ulrich. From 1824 Johann Jakob Ulrich exhibited regularly in the salon.

Even after he settled in Zurich towards the end of the 1830s, he often went on trips, including to Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and again to England. As early as the 1840s he trained artists, including Rudolf Koller , and in 1855 he became a professor of landscape drawing at the Zurich Polytechnic. Xaver Imfeld was among his students there .

Ulrich published the panel “Switzerland in Pictures”, for which he made many drawings, watercolors and oil studies. Ulrich is considered one of the pioneers of Swiss open-air landscape painters such as Johann Gottfried Steffan , Koller, Frank Buchser , Otto Frölicher and Adolf Stäbli . His landscapes, painted for the Swiss public, often have a more traditional style than his drawings from the same period, some of which are reminiscent of William Turner . In the Kunstmuseum Bern, for example, there is the more conventionally designed “Port of Rotterdam” from 1844, which forms a clear contrast to the “Seesturm” from 1849 owned by the Kunsthaus Zürich . From the 1850s onwards, he combined the conventional subjects demanded by the art market with his sensitive painting style that focused on lighting effects. Examples of paintings from this era are the “Waterfall in the Forest” from 1853, which is in the Kunsthaus Zürich, or “Moonlight over Sorrento” from 1858, which hangs in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur .

literature

  • August Laube, Helvetica. Drawings and graphics , Zurich 1909, p. 39
  • Hans A. Lüthy: The Zurich painter Johann Jakob Ulrich II. 1798-1877: A contribution to the history of Swiss landscape painting in the l. Half of the 19th century . Dissertation, Zurich 1965.
  • Carl Brun :  Ulrich, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 256-258.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss drawings 1800-1850 from the Basler Kupferstichkabinett . Kunstmuseum Basel, 1991. (Exhibition and catalog: Yvonne Boerlin-Brodbeck)
  2. ↑ Sabine Schulze (Ed.): Gardens: Order - Inspiration - Luck , Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main & Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1870-7
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gymmuenchenstein.ch
  4. ↑ http://www.ethistory.ethz.ch/silva_ethz/ETH/gess/ethistory/ethistory//material/professoren/listen/alle_profs_eintritt
  5. ↑ Xaver Imfeld 1853-1909 His life
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrich, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelfingen
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1877
Place of death Zurich