Joseph Niklaus Bütler
Joseph Niklaus Bütler (baptized as Josephus Nicolaus Gallus Bütler on October 16, 1822 in Küssnacht am Rigi ; † January 20, 1885 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swiss landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Joseph Niklaus Bütler was born the son of the painter Niklaus Bütler and Anna Maria Trutmann in Küssnacht am Rigi. He received his first artistic training from his father. After 1840 he began his rich activity in Lucerne , where his family shortly before took up residence. From 1852 to 1853 he attended the class of landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . After a short return to Lucerne, which was due to financial problems, he took up residence in Düsseldorf from 1858. For a short time his brother, the painter Anton Bütler , also moved to live with him in Düsseldorf.
During his time in Düsseldorf he devoted himself exclusively to landscape painting, especially the subjects of the Swiss Alps , which he idealized as heroic landscapes in a late romantic view . Bütler understood the mountain world, which, like Schirmer, he depicted with a great view, in the sense of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as “unadulterated nature” and as a “refuge of freedom”, whereby he repeatedly reproduced details developed after studies of nature in his works, often as paysage intimate in the foreground of his compositions.
In 1868 he married Sophie Antonia Jungheim, the sister of his painter friend Carl Jungheim . From 1859 to 1884 Bütler belonged to the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . In Düsseldorf he took part in the exhibitions of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . He also sent to many exhibitions in Switzerland.
literature
- Bütler, Joseph Nicolaus . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 151.
- Bütler, Joseph Nikolaus . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 199 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Jochen Hesse: Bütler, Josephus Nicolaus Gallus. In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bütler, Joseph Niklaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bütler, Joseph Nikolaus; Bütler, Josephus Nicolaus Gallus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized October 16, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Küssnacht SZ , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1885 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf , Germany |