Johann Ludwig Bleuler
Paintings
Braubach and Marksburg from the southeast Rhine Down
Neuchatel from the northeast
View of Strasbourg from Kehl
Boppard, Capuchin monastery with the castles Liebenstein and Sternfels
Johann Ludwig Bleuler (February 12, 1792 in Feuerthalen, March 28, 1850 in Laufen-Uhwiesen) was a Swiss publisher, landscape artist and painter.
Johann Ludwig Bleuler was the son of the famous Swiss landscape painter and small master Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder ; He was the younger brother of the painter Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger (1787-1857). In the art publishing house of his father he received a thorough craftsmanship and artistic training as a painter and draftsman.
In the years 1817/18 Bleuler traveled to the Rheinische Rhein, started his first landscape studies and took part in the exhibition of the Künstlergesellschaft in Zurich in 1819. In the same year, he went to Brussels and Amsterdam for educational and business travel. During his subsequent stay in Paris, he met his future wife, Antoinette Trillié. Having returned to Feuerthalen, Bleuler, after his marriage, took over the leadership of his father's business together with the older brother Heinrich.
In 1824 Bleuler founded his own publishing house in Schaffhausen. In 1827, he began the landscape studies, begun around 1820, and developed them continuously in a print-graphic sequence, which was to represent the entire Rhine, and which was to dominate publishing production until his death. Around 1845, Bleuler's main body appeared: "Voyage pittoresque aux bords du Rhin et de la Suisse". The applied technique was not least due to the success of these works: the views, which were reproduced in detail as either an outline or an aquatint etching, were all colored by hand using opaque gouache colors, which gave them an effect reminiscent of the old masquerade painting.
In 1833 Bleuler had moved his residence and the steadily growing workshop to the Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall. At the same time, Bleuler's last stay abroad was a trip to the Czar's Court in St. Petersburg, but he suffered a serious illness in 1837-38. In the following years the upheavals of that time increasingly brought him into trouble and drove the enterprise to the brink of ruin. The saturated market and new reproduction techniques contributed to this.
View of the city of Ilanz on the Vorderrhein
View from Bingen over the Rhine to Rüdesheim
Placidus a Spescha crossing the Rhinewald glacier
Literature
Thieme-Becker: General Lexicon of Fine Artists, Vol. 4, Leipzig, 1910, p. 115
Johann Ludwig Bleuler: The Rhine from the sources to the mouth. Alexandra Press, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-9521134-0-9
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