Hans Jacob Ulrich
Johann Jakob Ulrich ( born February 28, 1798 in Andelfingen, † March 17, 1877 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter and draftsman.
Life
Due to the troubled situation in the region bordering France Ulrich initially grew up with his grandparents in Weisslingen, and later he attended schools in Winterthur and Zurich. At the instigation of his father Johann Jakob Ulrich Meyer (1769-1840; Landschreiber of Andelfingen and later publisher in Zurich ) Ulrich graduated first in Zurich trained as a merchant, which he continued Lepin & Co. in Paris Bankhaus Paturle, from the spring of 1816 ..
Through the mediation of Paturle Ulrich enrolled in 1822 - initially during his career with the bank - in the studio of Jean -Victor Bertin, in the same time Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot also worked. In 1823 he joined the studio of the three brothers Leprince, and worked together with Théodore Gudin 1824 in Dieppe, until 1825 then moved into its own studio in Paris.
In the years from 1828 to 1830 traveled Ulrich Naples, Rome and Sicily, where he made numerous sketches. 1832 and 1835 he spent some time in England. There he studied the works of John Constable apparently, with whom he was first confronted in 1824 at the Paris Salon. His early works can be with their coloring, the low horizons and the detailed observation of the cloudy sky Constable recognize influence. Another artist, Ulrich's paintings can be compared with the works is, Eugène Boudin, the light and water mood exploited in a manner similar to Ulrich. From 1824 Johann Jakob Ulrich presented regularly at the Salon.
Even after he had settled in the late 1830s in Zurich, he frequently went on trips, including to Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and again to England. Already in the 1840s he made artists, including Rudolf Koller, and in 1855 he became professor of landscape drawing at the Zurich Polytechnic. Among his disciples was there Xaver Imfeld.
Ulrich gave the board works "Switzerland in Pictures" out for he made many drawings, watercolors and oil studies. Ulrich is considered one of the pioneers of the Swiss open-air landscape painters such as Johann Gottfried Steffan, Koller, Frank Buchser, Otto Frölicher and Adolf Stäbli. His painted for the Swiss public landscapes often have a more traditional style than his drawings from the same period, remember the part to William Turner. In the Kunstmuseum Bern about is the more conventional designed " Port of Rotterdam ", built in 1844, the forms to the " Sea Storm " of 1849, the Kunsthaus Zurich has the marked contrast. From the 1850s, he led the conventional subjects which demanded the art market, with its sensitive and attentive to lighting effects painting together. Examples of paintings from this period are some of the " Waterfall in the Forest" from 1853, which is located at the Kunsthaus Zurich, or "moon light over Sorrento " of 1858, which hangs in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur.