David Sulzer (9 September 1784,
Winterthur
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- 14 September 1864, near
Münsterlingen
Münsterlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
History
In 1994 the municipality was created from Landschlacht and Scherzingen.[genre
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painter.
Life and work
His father, Christoph, was a Master
wheelwright
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and
swordsmith
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. After taking drawing lessons at a local school, he trained as a painter in
Zürich
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and
Bern
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. In 1803 he,
Hans Jakob Oeri
Hans Jakob Oeri (16 December 1782, Kyburg - 24 February 1868, Zürich) was a Swiss portrait and history painter, draftsman and lithographer.
Biography
His father was a pastor. He spent his childhood in Kyburg und Regensdorf. From 1800 he was ...
, and some other friends took a trip to Paris, where he copied works by the
and trained in the studios of
Jacques Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away f ...
for eight years. Despite David's influence, decided to devote himself almost entirely to portraits.
After that, he worked in Bern and Winterthur, where he did portraits of the members of notable bourgeois industrial families. In 1815, he travelled to Austria to portray the elite personalities who participated in the
Vienna Congress
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.
In 1817, he entered the nobility by marrying Franziska Katharina Freiin von Lütgendorff-Leinburg (1787 - 1862), with whom he had four sons. Their eldest, , also became a portrait painter.
Over the course of his career, he made a substantial fortune, but lost it after investing in a country estate in
Weinfelden
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Weinfelden is an old town, which was known during Ancient Rome, Roma ...
in 1852. He died in poverty at the age of eighty.
Many of his most notable works are in the collection of the
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
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, although the majority of his approximately 1,000 canvases are in private collections. Some of his later works, in their background designs, show the influence of early
Daguerrotype
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s. No solo exhibition has ever been devoted to him although, in the early 1900s, some showings prominently presented his works with other Swiss painters.
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1784 births
1864 deaths
Swiss painters
Swiss portrait painters
People from Winterthur