Paul Julius Arter

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Paul Julius Arter

Paul Julius Arter also known in artistic circles as Julius Arter ; (Born June 19, 1797 in Zurich ; † September 12, 1839 in Munich ) was a Zurich-based Swiss draftsman and etcher .

Life

Paul Julius Arter was the only son of Paulus Arter (1744-1832) from his second marriage to the Ottenbach pastor's daughter Elisabetha Hamberger, born in 1752. Paulus Arter was a linen weaver, chairman of the Zunft zur Waag and member of the city council of Zurich. The painter Hans Konrad Arter (1773–1800) came from Paulus Arter's first marriage to Regula Wüst.

Arter grew up with numerous half-siblings in the old town of Zurich. The numerous changes of residence suggest difficult economic conditions. After finishing school, he trained as a draftsman, painter and etcher. In 1819 he married Regula Meyer from Buchs , with whom he had seven children. From 1821 Arter is listed as a painter in the Zurich city register.

Condemnation of Jesus; Wall painting in the cloister of the Töss monastery

Local views and landscapes are a focus of Arter's work. Numerous studies and drawings from the cloister of the Töss Monastery , which were created in the first half of the 1830s, as well as aquatint drawings from medieval Zurich, which were published in 1831–1835 under the title “Sammlung zürcher'scher Antiquities »published by Heinrich Füssli in Zurich. The sheets were reprinted several times and in 1829 illustrated the book “Das alten Zürich” by Friedrich Salomon Vögelin , in which a tour through the city in 1504 was reconstructed.

Arter's last known works are a panorama of the city of Zurich from 1837 and the panorama of Brütten dated 1838 . The Zurich panorama is a watercolor on six sheets with a total width of 193 centimeters. The Brütten panorama, a spring lithograph on two sheets, is 235 centimeters wide. Both panoramas are kept in the map collection of the Zurich Central Library.

On September 6, 1839, 42-year-old Paul Julius Arter and his eldest daughter Barbara were pulled out of the water near Munich . He left his widow behind with six underage children, three of whom grew up in the orphanage. It was only with the publication of the sketches from Töss Monastery a good hundred years later that Arter's works became known again.

Zurich panorama from Bürgli, 1837

  • to the northwest towards Wiedikon

  • north towards Höngg

  • to the northeast towards Zurich

  • west towards Riesbach / Hirslanden

  • to the northeast towards Zollikon

  • to the south towards Wollishofen

literature

  • Paul Julius Arter: Panorama of the city of Zurich . Zurich 1986 (facsimile; with introductory text by Willibald Voelkin).

Web links

Commons : Paul Julius Arter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fr. Montaneria: The pictures of life or the story of the disobedient Friederich. George Jaquet., Munich 1841., 48 p. Foreword, (Google books)
  2. ↑ Bayerische National = Zeitung., No. 150th, Friday 20th September 1837. Julius Arter, painter from Zurich and Barb. Arter, painter's daughter from Zurich (Google books) , p. 620
  3. ↑ Silvia Volkart: The world of images of the late Middle Ages. The wall paintings in Töss Abbey . Chronos Publishing House; Zurich 2011
personal data
SURNAME Arter, Paul Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1839
Place of death Munich