Johann Ludwig Bleuler

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Johann Ludwig Bleuler , called Louis Bleuler (* February 12, 1792 in Feuerthalen , † March 28, 1850 in Laufen-Uhwiesen ) was a Swiss publisher, landscape draftsman and painter.

Life

Johann Ludwig Bleuler was born as the son of the then famous Swiss landscape painter and minor master Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder; he was the younger brother of the painter Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger (1787-1857). He received a thorough technical and artistic training as a painter and draftsman at his father's art publishing house.

In the years 1817/18 Bleuler undertook trips to the Graubünden Rhine valleys, made his first landscape studies and in 1819 took part in the exhibition of the artist society in Zurich. In the same year he went on an educational and business trip to Brussels and Amsterdam. During his subsequent stay in Paris, he met his future wife, Antoinette Trillié (1802–1873). After his return to Feuerthalen, Bleuler took over the management of his father's business together with his older brother Heinrich.

In 1824 Bleuler founded his own publishing house in Schaffhausen . The 1820 begun and steadily extended landscape studies launched it to 1827 in a printed graphic, the entire course of the Rhine reproducing Vedutenfolge that was until his death dominate the publishing production. Bleuler's main work Voyage pittoresque aux bords du Rhin et de la Suisse was published around 1845 . For the popular success of these works caused not least the technique used: the true to detail as outline or aquatint - Etching duplicated views were all by hand using opaque gouache colored, which gave them their reminiscent of old master painting effect.

In 1833 Bleuler moved his residence and the steadily growing workshop to Laufen Castle at the Rhine Falls . The most important artists in Bleuler's workshop include Egidius Federle , Rudolf Weymann and Konrad Corradi as well as Rudolf Meyer. Other artists were Hans Neukomm, Heinrich Uster, Ulrich Müller, Johann Siegrist, Johann Jacob Stierlin, Johann Heinrich Gossauer (1824–1889) and Emanuel Labhardt, who had already learned from Johann Heinrich Wirz .

The entrepreneurial high point and at the same time Bleuler's last stay abroad was a trip to the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg in 1837/38 , during which, however, he contracted a serious illness. In the years that followed, the upheavals of that time brought him increasing difficulties and drove the company to the brink of ruin. The oversaturated market and new reproduction techniques contributed to this. After his death he was buried in the cemetery near the Reformed Church in Laufen. The grave on its own plot still exists today (as of March 2018).

literature

  • 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 ).
  • Johann Ludwig Bleuler: The Rhine from the sources to the mouth . Alexandra Press, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-9521134-0-9 .
  • Barbara Kemmer: A sense of art and business calculation. The Rhine Falls in the landscape vedutas of the Bleuler painting school . In: Claudia Heitmann (Ed.): The Rhine Falls. Sublime nature and tourist marketing . Exhibition cat. Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, Regensburg 2015, pp. 55–62.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Robert Savary: Johann Ludwig “Louis” Bleuler. In: Find a Grave . March 26, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bleuler, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleuler, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publisher, landscape draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Feuerthalen
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1850
Place of death Laufen-Uhwiesen