Samuel Birmann

Samuel Birman ( born August 11, 1793 in Basel, † September 27, 1847 ) was a Swiss landscape painters of the Romantic period.

Life

His works of landscape painting are heavily influenced at the beginning by his father Peter Birmann, of which he was also trained. First, he sought his motives in the Jura and the Baden neighborhood, later were his favorite subjects in the Bernese Oberland, the Valais and in Savoy.

Many of his works, of which the most important are from the period around 1820, are now in the Kunstmuseum Basel.

He married Juliana Birmann Vischer (* 1785, † 1859), who adopted after his death in 1853 Martin Grieder, which was received by his social and political engagement with the Canton history of Basel-Landschaft.

Works (excerpt)

• Souvenirs de la vallée de Chamonix (etc.). , Basel 1826
• Notes on Landoekonomie, Basel 1835-1836