Jost Meyer-am Rhyn

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Jost Meyer-am Rhyn (born October 24, 1834 in Lucerne ; † October 20, 1898 there ) was a Swiss collector and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Meyer-am Rhyn, the only son of Colonel Jakob Meyer († 1877) and his wife Nannette Bielmann, finished his education after the two lower classes of the Lucerne high school. Then he first became a student of the Lucerne landscape painter Jakob Josef Zelger (1812-1885). In 1853 he went to Düsseldorf and took lessons from Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Oswald Achenbach . From 1856 to 1858 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1857 he went on a trip to Italy accompanied by Oswald Achenbach . In 1858 he married Angelika am Rhyn, the daughter of Joseph-Carl am Rhyn (also Amrhyn , 1800–1849, Federal Chancellor from 1831 to 1847). In the mid-1860s he withdrew into private life and became a collector of works of art and antiquities, especially Swiss embroidery and tapestries from the 14th to 17th centuries, as well as Lucerne coins and medals. He continued the collection his father had started. Meyer-am Rhyn was a member of the Federal Art Commission and the Society for the Preservation of Patriotic Art Monuments , and from 1894 also the Swiss Numismatic Society .

literature

  • Roman Abbot: Jost Meyer-am Rhyn, born in 1834, died on October 20, 1898. Outline of life with four illustrations . New year's paper of the Kunstgesellschaft Luzern for 1899, Orell Füssli, Luzern 1898

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 436
personal data
SURNAME Rhyn, Jost Meyer-am
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss collector and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1898
Place of death Lucerne