Wilhelm Füssli (painter)

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Self-Portrait, 1852

Wilhelm Heinrich Füssli (Wilhelm Füeßli, Wilhelm Füeßlin, Wilhelm Füeßli, born January 16, 1830 in Zurich , † January 11, 1916 in Baden-Baden ) was a Swiss portrait painter and draftsman . He painted with oil and pastel colors.

Life

Portrait of Anna Helmholtz , 1869 (black and white photo)

Fuseli, scion of the Zurich Glockengießer- and artistic family füssli was the only child of the Zurich lawyer, politician and writer Wilhelm füssli and his wife Anna, born Locher (* 1807). He grew up in a household that was very interested in art; his father dabbled as a painter. With the support of his parents, he studied from 1846 to 1849 as a pupil of Jakob Becker , who represented painting at the Düsseldorf School of Painting , at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main . From 1849 he studied for a short time at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and in the studio of the history and portrait painter Johann Baptist Berdellé in Munich . The then modern painting of the Munich School did not appeal to him, however. In 1850 he traveled to Venice . He then stayed for several years in Paris , where he worked in Thomas Couture's atelier and studied masterpieces in the Louvre . Between 1855 and 1860 he again spent some time in Munich. In 1860 he married Emma Eleonora Viktoria Rosalie von Möllenbeck (* 1835) from Karlsruhe, the daughter of a legation councilor from Baden. He then settled in Italy , first in Florence , and finally in Rome , where he lived in 1862 and from 1868 to 1870, later again in 1892/1893. Soon after the turn of the century, an eye disease affected his work. The sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand , who met him in Italy, created a portrait bust of him.

As a sought-after portraitist, Füssli traveled to Switzerland and Germany several times. In addition to portraits, his oeuvre includes figure and landscape studies as well as sketches and caricatures. Füssli sent to Swiss and international exhibitions (Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Paris, Vienna). A special exhibition organized in 1901 at the Kunsthaus Zürich showed around 40 portraits from the years 1853 to 1893. He was also represented at the exhibition of the century of German art .

Füssli's daughter Anna Eleonora (1874–1941), called Nora , was born in Karlsruhe and was the wife of farmer Werner von Siemens (1856–1900), son of the industrialist Carl Heinrich von Siemens , in his second marriage in 1895 , and wife in his third marriage in 1923 by Werner Ferdinand von Siemens (1885–1937), son of the industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens , after she had been married to Prince Malcolm Khan from 1905 to 1908 and to the Italian general Luigi Fecia di Cossato (1841–1921) from 1910 to 1921 .

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(Selection)

  • Portrait of Mrs. Helene Fehr
  • Portrait of the six-year-old Baroness Natalie von Uexküll (oil on canvas, 1858)
  • Self-Portrait (1852)
  • The Julius Meyer Family (1867)
  • Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman (1871)
  • Young woman seated drawing at the easel (1888)

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Füssli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Faber: Conversations Lexicon for fine arts. Renger'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, p. 244. ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Füßli, family . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 565 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ 00748 Wilhelm Heinrich Füssli , registration of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  4. ↑ Swiss Gender Book. Almanac généalogique suisse . First year, commissioned by CF Lendorff, Basel 1905, p. 142. ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 195
  6. ^ The painter Wilhelm Heinrich Füssli (1830–1916). On the website of the Bavarian State Painting Collection
  7. ^ Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (Ed.): Separate exhibition by Wilhelm Füssli in Rome. Zurich 1901 (catalog, fifth series)
  8. ^ The German Century Exhibition . Exhibition of German art from the period 1775–1875. Königliche Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1906. Selection of the most outstanding pictures with introductory text by Hugo von Tschudi. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1906, 2 volumes.
  9. ^ Martin Lutz: Carl von Siemens. 1829-1906. A life between family and global company. CH Beck, Munich 2013, footnote 14 to chapter 15 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ Jörg Schuster (Ed.): Harry Graf Kessler . The diary 1880–1937. Fourth volume: 1906-1914. Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, p. 1210. ( Google Books )
  11. ^ Yvonne Groß, Ludwig Scheidegger: Nora Füssli . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2018, ISBN 978-3-944033-59-4
  12. ↑ http://www.sikart.ch/Werke.aspx?id=10430433
personal data
SURNAME Füssli, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Füssli, Wilhelm Heinrich; Füeßli, Wilhelm; Feesslin, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss portrait painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1916
Place of death Baden-Baden