Joseph Reichlen
Jean-Joseph Reichlen (born October 29, 1846 in La Tour-de-Trême , † August 9, 1913 in Friborg ) was a Swiss landscape and portrait painter .
Reichlen initially studied in Stuttgart , then at the Paris École des beaux-arts with Alexandre Cabanel . He spent eight months in Rome , where he copied the works of old masters in the Vatican Pinacoteca and attended the watercolor painting school in the Villa Medici in the evenings .
Back in Switzerland, he settled in Friborg in 1884. In 1890 he was appointed drawing teacher at the Collège Saint-Michel . In the same year he became editor of the magazine La Gruyère Illustrée , which was dedicated to maintaining the regional dialect. He wrote several works on folk art and customs.
literature
- Auguste Schorderet: Joseph Reichlen et la Gruyère illustrée. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore / Archives suisses des traditions populaires, Vol. 18, 1914, pp. 193–199. Digitized
- Joseph-Louis Reichlen: Vie d'artiste. Joseph Reichlen, peintre fribourgeois 1846–1913. Lausanne 1943.
- Alain Clavien: Les Helvétistes. Intellectuels et politique en Suisse romande au début du siècle. Lausanne 1993, p. 37.
- Sylvie Genoud: Le peintre fribourgeois Joseph Reichlen (1846–1913). Étude monographique. Friborg 1997.
- Francis Python: Freiburg. A city in the 19th and 20th centuries. Friborg 2007, p. 349.
Web links
Commons : Joseph Reichlen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Reichlen, Joseph. In: Sikart
- Works by Joseph Reichlen at the Musée gruerien
- Jean-Joseph Reichlen on artnet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichlen, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reichlen, Jean-Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Tour-de-Trême |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1913 |
| Place of death | Friborg |