Johann Ludwig Bleuler
Published hand-colored Rhine landscape aquatints
Johann Ludwig Bleuler, sometimes called Louis was a Swiss painter, landscape artist and publisher. He was born in Feuerthalen. His father, Johann Heinrich, was a landscape painter and member of the Schweizer Kleinmeister [sv] (lesser masters). His older brother, Johann Heinrich, the Younger (1787–1857) also became a painter. He began his artistic training in his father's workshop, where he learned painting and draftsmanship. From 1817 to 1818, he travelled throughout the Rhine region, making landscape sketches and studies. The following year, he participated in an exhibition at the Künstlergesellschaft (an artists' association) in Zürich. That same year, he made a combination study and business trip to Brussels and Amsterdam. During a subsequent stay in Paris, he met his future wife, Antoinette Trillié. Back in Feuerthalen, he and his older brother took over management of their father's business. In 1824, he started his own publishing company in Schaffhausen. Beginning in 1827, he worked on a sequence of prints featuring landscapes and vedute along the Rhein; a project that would occupy him until his death. His major work, Voyage pittoresque aux bords du Rhin et de la Suisse was published in 1845. The aquatints were all colored by hand, using gouache techniques that gave them the appearance of Old Masters. In 1833, he had moved his home and fast growing business to Schloss Laufen near the Rheinfall. Many well known, or soon to be well known, artists were employed by his shop, including Egidius Federle, Konrad Corradi and Emanuel Labhardt. In 1838, he made a business trip to St. Petersburg. While there, he contracted a serious illness that left him in poor health. In the following years, his company was nearly ruined, through a combination of new printing techniques and the Revolutions of 1848. He died on 28 March 1850 in Laufen-Uhwiesen.
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Artworks by this artist (89 total)
- Vue de la ville de Dusseldorf prise de l’Academie
- Le pont du milieu de la Via Mala
- Vue de la ville d’Emerich, Frontière Prussienne
- Vue de la ville de Rheinfelden, Canton d’Argovie
- Grütli, am Vierwaldstadter-See
- Berne
- Le château de Rheinstein, appartenant a S.A.R. le Prince Fréderic de Prusse
- Vue d’Ilanz, première ville sur les bords du Rhin, supérieur
- Vue de Bornhofen de la ruine de Liebenstein et de Sternberg ou les deux frères
- Wimmis an der Kander bey Thun
- Vue du village de Zillis dans la vallée de Schams, en venant de Via Mala, Canton des Grisons
- Première source du Rhein posterieur
- Vue de Bacharach et de la Ruine de Stahlek
- Vue de la galerie perdu en venant de Tousis
- Vue de l’interieur de la Ville de Schaffhouse prise près de la Couronne
- Vue de la ville de Mayence et de ses environs
- Vue du Couvent de Rheinau, Canton de Zurich 2
- Vue de Caub du Pfalz des ruines de Schoenberg et Gutenfels
- Vue de la ville de Diessenhofen et du Couvent de Catherinenthal
- Vue de la ville d’Arbon et du lac de Constance