Johann Murbach

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Johann Murbach was a gouache painter from the Upper Rhine, who can only be verified with a few works on paper between 1767 and 1778.

Life

Johann Murbach: Capuchins accepting the (last) confession , gouache 1767

Nothing is known about the life of Johann Murbach. The name Murbach was common in the 18th century from Colmar to Schaffhausen. Johann Murbach is not mentioned in the relevant artist directories of his time from Johann Heinrich Füssli to Johann Georg Meusel to Georg Kaspar Nagler . In recent years, gouaches with his signature and dates between 1767 and 1778 have repeatedly been offered on the art market. Stylistically and thematically, he must have lived and worked in Basel. This is accompanied by a note on the depiction of a Basel standard bearer from 1773, signed by him, which was offered in 2010 at the Lucerne auction house Fischer. After that he is said to have been a room lawyer for the Basel Guild of Heaven in Freie Strasse (33).

credentials

  1. ^ Catalog auction house Fischer Luzern, auction of June 21, 2010, Item 1403 Johann Murbach
personal data
SURNAME Murbach, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century