Jost Muheim
Jost Muheim (born September 28, 1837 in Altdorf , Canton Uri ; † January 31, 1919 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss landscape and genre painter .
Life
Muheim, son of the wine merchant, councilor, judge, governor and member of the Council of States Josef (Jost) Anton Muheim (1808–1880) from his first marriage to Franziska, née Müller, a daughter of Aloys Müller (1785–1845), visited in 1851 and in 1852 the Latin school in Einsiedeln . He received his first painting lessons from his father, who had acquired a reputation as a landscape painter and engraver on the basis of training with Swiss masters and in Munich before and in addition to full-time activities and political offices and who is listed in art history literature as Jost Anton Muheim the Younger . In the years 1859 and 1860, Muheim went to the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe and became a student of the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . From there he moved to Düsseldorf , where he was a private student of the genre painter Benjamin Vautier from 1861 to 1863 . Shortly afterwards he was followed by his friend, the landscape painter Niklaus Pfyffer . From 1864 to 1866 he worked in his father's studio in Lucerne . In 1867 he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude in Karlsruhe. In 1869 he married Elisabeth Huber.
As a genre and landscape painter, Muheim created numerous views of the Alpine region, especially the Uri Alps . He made commissioned works for the courts of Ludwig II of Bavaria ( Rütli , Hohenschwangau Castle ) and the British monarch Victoria . In 1886 he was the director of the festival for the Zentenar celebration in Sempach , and from 1888 to 1892 a member of the Federal Art Commission.
literature
- Muheim, Jost . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd edition, Volume 7, p. 307 ( Google Books )
- Jost Muheim von Altdorf, in Lucerne, painter. 1838-1919 . In: Vaterland , February 1, 1919 (also in: Urner Wochenblatt , 1919, nos. 6-8)
Web links
- Eliane Latzel: Jost Muheim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Muheim, Jost , entry in the sikart.ch portal( SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland )
- Jost Muheim , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Wymann : Letters from the Bavarian and English royal courts to the painter Jost Muheim . In: Historisches Neujahrsblatt , XXVI, Altdorf 1920, pp. 75–95
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muheim, Jost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdorf , Canton of Uri |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1919 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |