Johann Heinrich Bleuler

Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder ( born December 31, 1758 in Zollikon in Zurich, † January 25, 1823 in Feuerthalen ) was a Swiss porcelain painter, draftsman and landscape painter in the gouache art, art teacher, art publisher and engraver.

Life

Johann Heinrich Bleuler initially trained as a porcelain painter. Bleuler left at the beginning of the 1780s in Feuerthalen down. In 1788 he founded a school of art, the Bleuerische painting school. Lived between 1799 and 1804 and worked Bleuler temporarily Laufen Castle at Schaffhausen, and then return after Feuerthalen.

Bleuler, he moved to the popular in his time Swiss views ( especially after Ludwig Hess). He made further own landscape gouaches, as of Blankenburg in Switzerland. Around 1820, a panoramic landscape of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck is dated as seen from the Mount of Pariner. Bleuler's watercolors are in the Bühlmannschen collection in the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. In the last years of life Bleuler devoted himself largely to the flower painting.

The Bleulerische Malschule

The wealthy Johann Heinrich Bleuler had four children. His eponymous eldest son Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger (1787-1857) was the most important member of the family and reüssierte as landscape painter in Germany. The second son of Johann Ludwig Bleuler (1792-1850) worked as a landscape artist and art dealer in Schaffhausen and running. Bleuler took two of his sponsored children after the death of their parents in the household, and she taught in painting, the 1774 -born Johann Heinrich Uster ( 1774-1866 ), of Bleuler's daughter Caroline married, and the 1785 -born Johann Heinrich Wirz ( 1785-1866 ). Skip adopted Bleuler Anna Bose, who worked as a gouache painter after marrying Johann Heinrich Wirz as Nanette (Anna ) Wirz- Bleuler ( 1783-1851 ). Overall, about 25 artists are known to have resulted from the Bleulerischen painting school.

Works

  • The Red Mountains ( 1804-1820, 32 × 47 cm, gouachierte outline etching on paper, now in the Museum Hausmart field in Schwelm )
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