Jean Emmanuel Locher
Swiss painter of costumes and classics
Jean Emmanuel Locher was a Swiss painter and etcher. Locher was born in 1769 in Fribourg, the son of Gottfried Locher, a painter from Mengen, and his wife Marie-Françoise Rotzer. Like his brother François (1765-1799), he received his artistic training in his father's studio. He is known to have worked on his father's altarpieces and frescoes. After leaving his father's workshop, he turned, like most of his colleagues, to gouached outline etchings of Swiss traditional costumes. He also worked as a portrait and miniature painter. Around 1820, a series of his portraits, Recueil des portraits suisses des 22 cantons, was published. In 1811, Jean Emmanuel Locher painted the altarpiece with Karl Borromäus for the church of St. Charles of the RR. PP. Cordeliers in Fribourg in the tradition of his father as a church painter, but already in the style of classicism. Locher is less well known as a painter of votive paintings for the chapels of Mariahilf in Düdingen or Loreto near Fribourg i.Üe.
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Artworks by this artist
- Barbe Favre, De Lutry près de Lausanne 1825-1830
- Anne Tschudy, De Wallenburg au Canton de Bâle 1825-1830
- Louise Tascher, De stalla, Canton des Grisons 1825-1830
- Madelaine Lacher, De Buonas au Canton de Zug 1825-1830
- Catherine Baenziger, Fille d’un Tailleur des environs de Herisau au Canton d’Appenzell 1825-1830
- Genevieve Glutz, De Hirsbrunnen au Canton de Soleure, Fille unique d’un riche campagnard 1825-1830
- Marguerite Remy, De Martigny, de Vallais 1825-1830
- Rose Schleyer, Paysanne du Village de Kybourg, Canton de Zuric 1825-1830
- Louison Humbert, De St. Aubin au Canton de Neufchatel 1825-1830
- Marianne Teroux, De la Bâtie au Canton de Genève 1825-1830
- Marguerithe Schoeply, Sommelière au Cabaret de l’Etoile tout près de Soleure 1825-1830
- Hélène Larky, sommelière à l’Auberge du Soleil à Sursee Canton de Lucerne 1825-1830
- Catherine Boezinger, Femme à l’enseigne de l’Ours, à Glaris 1825-1830
- Froenely Ackermann, Du Gouggisberg au Canton de Berne, Fille du premier Préposé du Village 1825-1830
- Mareily Schild, De Meyringen dans la Vallé d’Oberhasly, Canton de Berne 1825-1830
- Marie Glokker, d’Altdorf 1825-1830
- Marie Schroeter, Fille du Préposé du Village de Mariahilf au Canton de Fribourg 1825-1830
- Anne Walter, De Knonau au Canton de Zuric 1825-1830
- Elisabeth Witschy, Fille d’un meunier des environs de Worb, à peu de distance de Berne 1825-1830
- Genovieve Frey, De Münsterlingen au Canton de Thurgovie 1825-1830