Martin Disteli

Disteli Martin ( born May 28, 1802 in Olten, † March 18, 1844 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss painter and liberal political cartoonist.

Disteli expressed already during his student days in Lucerne and Jena a rare talent, public life wrest his comic pages and have the same sketching on most apt; Examples of his work are preserved in the detention room at the University of Jena. Because of his participation in the fraternity he joined in 1822 the fraternity to Jenaische, relegated Disteli returned to the home and now began to use his art for a living. He painted figureheads and portraits, drew Swiss slaughter animals to Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich's fables, historical pictures of the Swiss Alps Paperback roses among others

He also founded an art school in his hometown and was consequently appointed in 1836 as a drawing teacher at the Higher Teaching and Education Institute of the Canton of Solothurn. In the Landwehr of the Canton of Solothurn risen to lieutenant colonel and chief of the second battalion, he was in 1836 the inhabitants of Basel- Country in their liberal uprising against Basel City in and acquired by the basel scenic honorary citizenship.

In his practice, he never went into his coarse attacks in the field of politics and religion go on systems, but always on personalities and castigated especially that which he believed to be a hypocrite or wind flags. This he showed particularly in his Swiss calendar pictures, to the Governing Council Peter Jacob Felber wrote the lyrics.

Parts of his work and life testimonies safekeeping of the poet and City Museum Liestal. In his native town of Olten a station underpass is named after him.