Anton Bütler
Anton Bütler, born Joseph Antonius Laurentius Bütler (12 August 1819, Auw AG, Auw – 18 November 1874, Lucerne) was a Swiss landscape, history and church painter. Life and work He was the son of Niklaus Bütler, an artist, and his wife Anna Maria née Trutmann. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Küssnacht, where his family moved in 1820. His first lessons in art came from his father. When he was sixteen, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; copying the Dutch Masters and working as an assistant to Peter von Cornelius. In 1840, he settled in Lucerne, where his family had moved the year before, and set up a studio. In 1844, he was commissioned to decorate the . He also painted some altarpieces. In 1848, he left Lucerne for further studies. Some sources say he returned to Munich, others that he went to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and worked under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. From 1855 to 1857, he was in Rome. From 1865 to 1868, seeking to ...
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