Pierre de Salis-Soglio

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Peter Graf von Salis-Soglio , 1875

Peter Graf von Salis-Soglio , even comte Pierre de Salis-Soglio or Peter Fane de Salis (* 22. November 1827 in Neuchâtel NE ; † 27. March  1919 ibid), was a Swiss landscape , genre and animal painter and engraver of Düsseldorf School . He also worked as the curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Neuchâtel.

Life

Salis-Soglio, scion of the Swiss aristocratic family Salis , was the second oldest child of Count Peter von Salis-Soglio (1799-1870), an officer with changing employers, from his second marriage to Cecile Henrietta Marguerite Bourgeois (1802-1892). He received his schooling in England from the age of ten . In 1847 he took painting lessons from the amateur painter Henry Syer Trimmer (1806-1878), who had been encouraged to paint by the landscape painter William Turner , a friend of his father Henry Scott Trimmer (1778-1859). From 1848 to 1850 he served as an officer in the Austrian service. In the years 1852/1853 he trained as a landscape, genre and animal painter from the painter Friedrich Happel in Düsseldorf . There he was also a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In 1868 he married Adele L'Huillier (1832–1873), in 1874 Agnes Louisa La Trobe (1837–1916), the daughter of Charles La Trobe , who gave birth to three daughters and two sons. The daughter Elisabeth (1880-1967) married the Swiss Indologist Godefroy de Blonay in 1901 . From 1885 to 1912 Salis-Soglio was the curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel).

literature

  • Pierre de Salis-Soglio . In: Inventaire suisse d'architecture 1850–1920 . Orell Füssli, 1982, p. 150.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Julius Perthes, Volume 95 (1922), p. 810.
  • Salis-Soglio, Pierre comte de . In: Carl Brun : Swiss Artist Lexicon . Verlag von Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1913, Volume 3 (S – Z), p. 7 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation . Volume 2 (L – Z), Leipzig 1853, p. 329 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
  3. ^ Peter Fane de Salis , website in the portal thepeerage.com
personal data
SURNAME Salis-Soglio, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salis-Soglio, Peter Graf von; Salis, Peter Fane de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape and genre painter and curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Neuchâtel
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel NE
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1919
Place of death Neuchâtel NE