Johannes Pfenninger

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The painter with his family
in his studio in Zurich

Johannes Pfenninger (born February 20, 1765 in Stäfa ; † December 31, 1825 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter and engraver .

biography

Johannes Pfenninger was the son of master dyer Johann Jakob Pfenninger and Magdalena Weymann. At the age of eight, Pfenninger worked as a stove tile painter for the potter Johannes Schulthess in Stäfa. With the support of Johann Kaspar Lavater , he came to study drawing with Georg Friedrich Schmoll in Urdorf in 1778 . He then worked as a secretary at Lavater, made portraits and silhouettes for the Physiognomic Fragments and learned drawing from Johann Balthasar Bullinger . In the 1780s he became a student of the engraver Christian von Mechel in Basel , and later he learned from Johann Melchior Wyrsch .

In 1793 he went on a study trip to Italy. In Rome, with the support of Asmus Jakob Carstens , he drew the ancient monuments. Johannes Pfenninger worked as a portrait painter , engraver and art teacher in Zurich from 1799 . In 1801 he married Dorothea Kramer and after her death in 1816 Magdalena Baag.

He also created mythological , biblical , allegorical and historical compositions. His students included u. a. Daniel Albert Freudweiler .

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SURNAME Pfenninger, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Stäfa
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1825
Place of death Zurich