Victor Tobler

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Johann Victor Tobler (born January 13, 1846 in Trogen ; † February 8, 1915 in Munich ) was a Swiss genre painter and illustrator .

Johann Victor Tobler: Seated Lady with a Venus Figure

Live and act

Victor Tobler was born as the son of the businessman and councilor Johann Jakob Tobler and his wife Susanna Ernestine nee. Fehr born. At the age of ten he lost his father, in 1860 he moved with his mother to St. Gallen , where he attended the canton school. He received his first painting lessons from the drawing teacher Johann Wilhelm Völker. Then he came to Rudolf Koller's studio .

Tobler began his studies on May 20, 1863 at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger . His role models were Wilhelm von Kaulbach and Moritz von Schwind . Victor Tobler stayed in Munich and was elected a board member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative.

Every summer he spent a few months in Appenzellerland , where he studied the local folklore and the landscape. At the end of the 19th century, Tobler built their own puppet theater for his sons Georg and Justus, equipped with electric lighting and retractable floor sections. In military service he was promoted to officer in the artillery.

literature

  • Traugott Schiess: Tobler, Viktor. In: Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 3, Huber, Frauenfeld 1913, p. 315 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Heinrich Pfenninger: Victor Tobler, an Appenzell painter. In: Heimatschutz. Vol. 12 (1917), H. 2, pp. 17-28, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-171692 .
  • Hermann Grosser: Victor Tobler, an Appenzell painter at the turn of the century. In: Appenzell calendar. Vol. 251 (1972), DOI: 10.5169 / seals-376029 .
  • The Glarner Kunstverein collection. Glarner Kunstverein, Glarus 1995.
  • Danielle Strahm: Tobler's Marionette Theater from 1897–1900. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2010.

Web links

Commons : Victor Tobler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register entry for Viktor Tobler. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tobler, Johann Victor (full name); Tobler, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss genre painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Trogen
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1915
Place of death Munich