Konrad Grob (painter)

Konrad Grob (born September 3, 1828 in Niederwil , † January 9, 1904 in Munich ) was a Swiss lithographer and painter .

Self portrait

Life

At the age of 14, Konrad Grob, son of a farmer, began an apprenticeship with the lithographer Schönfeld in Winterthur in 1842 . After completing his training, Grob worked as a lithographer, first in St. Gallen, then in Verona and then in Naples , where he stayed for more than ten years. In 1865 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was accepted into Arthur von Ramberg 's class in 1870 and opened his own studio. Grob had previously mainly painted historical subjects, but now Ramberg has promoted him primarily in genre painting .

Grob produced numerous pictures in quick succession, which immediately found buyers and made his name known in Switzerland. Attempts to regain a foothold in history painting failed; his picture of the battle of Sempach fell through at the Paris World's Fair in 1878. Since his application to paint the Tell Chapel was unsuccessful, he turned back to genre painting.

Konrad Grob died at the age of 76 of complications from pneumonia.

Works (selection)

Battle of Sempach
The painter on the study trip
Pestalozzi and the orphans of Stans

literature

Albert Gessler: Konrad Grob. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 4, 1900, pp. 105-107 ( e-periodica ).
Werner Weisbach : Grob, Konrad . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 60–70 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Association for the publication of the Swiss artist lexicon (ed.): Artist lexicon of Switzerland. XX. Century. Volume 1, Huber, Frauenfeld 1958, p.?.

Swiss Institute for Art Research (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art. Dictionnaire biographique de l'art suisse. Dizionario biografico dell'arte svizzera . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1998, p.?.

Web links

Commons : Konrad Grob (painter) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Mariuccia Sprenger: Grob, Konrad. In: Sikart

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Grob, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss lithographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niederwil
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1904
Place of death	Munich

[1] Conrad Grob

[2] 1865, Conrad Grob, registry entry