Ludwig Vogel

Ludwig Vogel (* July 10, 1788 in Zurich, † August 21, 1879 ibid; Complete name: Georg Ludwig Vogel ) was a Swiss painter.

Bird learned the trade of confectioner and operated the painting at first only in his spare time. From 1808 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, but the study felt to be unsatisfactory.

He therefore traveled to Rome in 1810 and joined there on to Bertel Thorvaldsen, Joseph Anton Koch and Peter von Cornelius. The return of the Swiss from the Battle of Morgarten: Here his first large picture emerged. After he had still been a time in Florence, he returned to the homeland and led there until the mid-1860s a number of representations of public life and the history of Switzerland from which you a happy composition and dramatic life nachrühmte. One of the most famous is the engraved by Carl Arnold Gonzenbach Swiss Confederation of 1307.