Maximilien de Meuron
Maximilien de Meuron (born September 8, 1785 in Corcelles-près-Concise ; † February 27, 1868 in Neuchâtel ) was a French-speaking Swiss landscape painter of the Romantic period .
life and work
De Meuron came from a noble family. He studied law in Berlin . Travels to Paris and Naples gave him new impressions. He was particularly influenced by the French baroque painters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin . In the tradition of German-Swiss painters such as Johann Heinrich Wüest and Caspar Wolf , he sometimes drew his motifs from the Alps and thus exerted influence on later French-speaking Alpine painters such as Alexandre Calame and François Diday . His best-known work, the oil painting Le Grand Eiger vu de la Wengeneralp , was created in 1823 and stands out for its unusual composition and ethereal lighting.
De Meuron campaigned for the development of art in Neuchâtel by organizing exhibitions and by founding the Société des amis des arts and the municipal Musée peinture . From 1825 he was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts . De Meuron's son and student was Albert de Meuron .
A portrait bust of de Meuron, created in 1856 by Ferdinand Schlöth , is in the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel .
literature
- Meuron de Corcelles, Maximilian . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 31.
Web links
- Nathalie Monbaron: Meuron, Maximilien de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- William Hauptman: Meuron, Maximilien de. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Hess / Tomas Lochman (eds.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891) , Basel 2004, pp. 36, 162.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meuron, Maximilien de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corcelles-près-Concise |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1868 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel |