Ludwig Schulthess

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Ludwig Schulthess (born August 21, 1805 in Zurich ; † May 10, 1844 in Benken ZH ) was a Swiss engineer and draftsman .

Life

Ludwig Schulthess with his twin brother Emil
Ludwig Schulthess

Ludwig Schulthess grew up with his twin brother Emil (1805–1855) and two other brothers in the house "Lindengarten" on Hirschengraben in the city of Zurich. His parents were the Zurich councilor, banker and silk merchant Leonhard Schulthess (1775–1841) and his wife Dorothea Nüscheler.

After attending the Zurich city school and a language stay in Geneva, Ludwig studied hydraulic engineering and road construction in Vienna and Karlsruhe. In 1832 he returned to Zurich and joined the canton of Zurich as an engineering adjunct . In 1833 he married the doctor's daughter Anna Kaufmann, who gave birth to three sons and a daughter.

As a member of the Antiquarian Society of Zurich , he worked as a conservator and drew during excavations and plan recordings. Ludwig Schulthess died of typhus in Benken while helping Johann Conrad Vögelin to work out a historical atlas.

plant

Schulthess was a pioneer of the graphic documentation of architectural monuments and created around three hundred views of churches, monasteries and castles. He dealt particularly intensively with the Töss monastery , which he drew from different directions, made a plan and a bird's eye view . It was Schulthess who commissioned Johann Conrad Werdmüller to copy the frescoes in the cloister before they were demolished.

Schulthess is said to have been color-blind ; probably one reason why he preferred the sepia technique for his drawings .

Emil Schulthess

Ludwig's twin brother Emil got into his parents' silk business. He also worked as a heraldist and landscape painter; numerous views of castles and churches in the canton of Zurich as well as old Zurich come from him.

Works (selection)

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Schulthess  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbaria
  2. ↑ Silvia Volkart: The world of images of the late Middle Ages. The wall paintings in Töss Abbey . Chronos Publishing House; Zurich 2011
  3. ↑ Sikart. In: Sikart
personal data
SURNAME Schulthess, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss engineer and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1844
Place of death Benken ZH