Johann Ulrich Schellenberg

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Johann Ulrich Schellenberg (born November 8, 1709 in Winterthur ; † October 29, 1795 there ) was a Swiss landscape painter , portraitist , etcher and engraver . He became known less for his own pictures and more for his topographical works.

Life

Johann Ulrich Schellenberg was born on November 8th 1709 as the youngest son of the shoemaker Hans Jacob and Veritas Schellenberg, née Blum. From 1724 to 1727 he was a student of the flat painter Joachim Hettlinger in Winterthur .

Little is known about the following years of traveling, he was probably traveling in Germany and a student of the Augsburg copper engraver Johann Jakob Haid . At the end of 1731 he moved to Bern, where from 1736 he worked as an assistant to the portrait painter Johann Rudolf Huber . His daughter Anna Katharina married Schellenberg in 1737. A year later he moved to Basel with his wife , where his son Johann Rudolph was born in 1740 . Johann Rudolph later also became a well-known painter.

When his wife died in 1749, Schellenberg moved back to Winterthur with his son. There he continued his artistic activity and opened a small art publisher, through which he also sold his own vedute . To which he opened a drawing school. Students in this are among others his own son , Anton Graff and Heinrich Rieter . From 1755 to 1757 Johann Ulrich Schellenberg worked mainly as an employee of David Herrliberger on his topography of the Eydgenosschaft . From 1759 he was a member of the Grand Council in Winterthur. In 1761 he married his second wife, Anna Katharina Brunner. In 1769 he went on a trip to the Gotthard with his son , from which a number of Gotthard views and mountain topographies originated.

On October 29, 1795, Schellenberg is reported in the council minutes of Winterthur as deceased. His estate is in the Winterthur libraries .

Works

  • «Portrait of a Lady, Stringing a Pearl Necklace», 1745, oil on canvas.

  • «Prospect der Statt Winterthur. From the pages of the Holy Mountain », 1752, copperplate engraving on paper.

  • Mörsburg, engraving by Herrliberger after a drawing by Johann Ulrich Schellenberg, c. 1754

  • Lucerne, engraving by Herrliberger after a drawing by Johann Ulrich Schellenberg, c. 1758

  • Winterthur, snake mill, view from the office building onto the moat with deer, 1784

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SURNAME Schellenberg, Johann Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape painter, portraitist, etcher and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1795
Place of death Winterthur