Samuel Hieronymus Grimm

Country life , ink drawing, 1765

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (born January 18, 1733 in Burgdorf , † April 14, 1794 in London ) was a Swiss landscape painter and poet .

life and work

After training as a businessman , Samuel Hieronymus Grimm attended an art academy in Bern , where he studied under Johann Ludwig Aberli . After a stay in France , he traveled to London in 1768. In the following years Grimm earned his living as a drawing teacher and often traveled with his wealthy students through Great Britain - in the course of which he produced numerous sketches and drawings .

Grimm created many templates for copperplate engravings by the Zurich artist Johann Rudolf Holzhalb (1723–1806) to illustrate literary works, e. B. the satires by Aulus Persius Flaccus (Bern 1765), a complete edition of the works of Ewald Christian von Kleist (Bern 1765), collected satires by Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (Bern 1765), poetic works by Friedrich von Hagedorn (Bern 1766/1771) , a complete edition of the works of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (Bern 1768), the Swiss songs by Johann Caspar Lavater (Bern 1768), Johann Georg Zimmermanns Vom Nationalstolze (Zurich 1768) or the Complete Poems by Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz (Bern 1770).

literature

Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus . 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. 49-50 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Mary Rotha: Samuel Grimm . Faber, London 1941.
Hugues Plaideux: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733–1794). Ses oeuvres en Normandie et l'iconographie authentique de l'abbaye de Cherbourg . In: Les Anglais en Normandie , Actes du 45e Congrès des Sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Normandie (Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, October 2010), Vol. 16, 2011, pp. 373-384.

Remarks

↑ Some editions have also appeared under the title variant Von dem Nationalstolze .

Web links

Commons : Samuel Hieronymus Grimm - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Georges Herzog: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus. In: Sikart
answers.com - Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss landscape painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH	Burgdorf
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1794
Place of death	London

[1] Some editions have also appeared under the title variant Von dem Nationalstolze .