Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer
Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer (born May 20, 1766 Geneva ; † August 10, 1847 there ) was a Swiss landscape painter , watercolorist , caricaturist and etcher . He was the father of the cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer .
Live and act
Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer was born as the son of Georg-Christoph, master tailor in Schweinfurt , and Marguerite Dubochet. He married Charlotte-Antoinette Counis, daughter of a Saxon needler.
At the age of 14 he completed an apprenticeship as an etcher with Jean-François Hess and Isaac-Jacob Lacroix in Geneva and with François Lardy and Carl Hackert in Lausanne . He then worked in the Geneva bookshop.
In 1786, the Geneva Société des Arts made it possible for him to stay in Paris . During a three-year internship with the etcher Nicolas Delaunay, Töpffer made contact with Parisian artistic circles. He learned watercolor painting from the architect Jean-Thomas Thibaut. In June 1789 he returned to Geneva.
In 1792 he accompanied the landscape painter Pierre-Louis De la Rive on his study trips.
After the Helvetic Republic in 1798 , he remained without commissions.
He was engaged in oil painting and created caricatures, which he exhibited in Geneva in 1798. In the Salon du Louvre he showed a sepia drawing.
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During his later visits to Paris, Töpffer met Carle Vernet and Dominique-Vivant Denon . He painted several portraits together with Pierre-Louis Bouvier , Jacques-Laurent Agasse and Firmin Massot . The former Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais bought pictures from him. In 1812 he won a gold medal at the Exposition du Louvre. Thanks to his success, he lived with his son Rodolphe Töpffer and his two daughters Louise and Ninette, who later became the wife of the painter Etienne Duval (1824-1914), in prosperity. He visited England at the invitation of an English patron. He was best known as a watercolorist.
His granddaughter married Jacques Alfred van Muyden .
literature
- Lucien Boissonnas: Wolfgang Adam Töpffer 1766–1847, Peintures . Editions Benteli, Bern 2011, ISBN 3-7165-1643-0 .
Web links
- Lucien Boissonnas: Töpffer, Wolfgang-Adam. In: Sikart (as of: 2018), accessed on October 27, 2019.
- Lucien Boissonnas: Töpffer, Wolfgang-Adam. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Les peintres genevois: Adam-Wolfgang Tœpffer at Signée Genève
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Töpffer, Wolfgang-Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter, watercolorist, caricaturist and eraser |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1847 |
| Place of death | Geneva |