Johann Ludwig Bleuler

Johann Ludwig Bleuler ( born February 12, 1792 in Feuerthalen, † March 28, 1850 in Laufen - Uhwiesen ) was a Swiss publisher, landscape draftsman and painter.

Johann Ludwig Bleuler was born the son of the then famous Swiss landscape artist, and young master Johann Heinrich Bleuler; He was the younger brother of the painter Johann Heinrich Bleuler. In his father's art publishing house, he received a thorough craftsmanship and artistic training as a painter and draftsman.

In the years 1817/18 Bleuler made ​​trips in the Grisons Rhine valleys, prepared the first landscape studies and took part in the 1819 exhibition of the artistic community in Zurich. In the same year he went to education and business trip to Brussels and Amsterdam. During his subsequent stay in Paris, he met his future wife, Antoinette Trillié. After returning to Feuerthalen, Bleuler took over after his marriage with the older brother Henry the lead of his father's business.

Bleuler in 1824 founded his own publishing company in Schaffhausen. The 1820 begun and steadily expanded landscape studies he launched about 1827 in a graphic print, the whole course of the Rhine reproducing Vedutenfolge that would dominate the publishing production until his death. About 1845 appeared Bleuler's major work, "Voyage aux bords du Rhin pittoresque et de la Suisse ". For the public success of these works caused not least by the technique used: the detail reproduced as an outline or aquatint etching views were colored all by hand using opaque gouache colors, which gave them their old master painting reminiscent of effect.

1833 Bleuler had moved his residence and the ever-growing workshop in the castle of Laufen at the Rhine Falls. Entrepreneurial climax and at the same time Bleuler's last foreign residence was 1837/38 a trip to the Imperial Court in St. Petersburg, in which he, however, drew upon a serious illness. In the years following the upheavals of that time brought him increasingly into trouble and drove the company to the brink of ruin. The oversaturated market and new reproductive technologies wore the your help.

View from Bingen on the Rhine to Rüdesheim

Placidus a Spescha crossing the Rheinwald Glacier