Maximilien de Meuron

Maximilien de Meuron ( born September 8, 1785 Corcelles- près -Concise, † February 27, 1868 in Neuchâtel ) was a French- Swiss painter of the Romantic period.

Life and work

De Meuron came from a noble family. He studied law in Berlin. Travel to Paris and Napoli gave him new impressions. Especially the French Baroque painter Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin influenced him decisively. In the tradition of German Swiss painters such as Johann Heinrich Wüest and Caspar Wolf he moved into his motives sometimes from the Alps and thus exerted influence on later Western Swiss Alps painters like Alexandre Calame and François Diday from. His most famous work, the oil painting Le Grand Eiger vu de la Wengeneralp, originated in 1823 and stands out with an unusual screen layout and an ethereal lighting.

De Meuron continued with the organization of exhibitions as well as the creation of the Société des amis des arts and the city's Musée peinture for the development of art in a Neuchâtel.

A portrait bust de Meuron, 1856 created by Ferdinand Schlöth, located at the Musée d' art et d' histoire in Neuchâtel ..