Peter Birmann
Swiss master of landscape drawings
Peter Birmann was a Swiss painter. He started his training at his father Rudolph's, a stonemason, He then continued at the workshops of various Swiss artists: Rudolf Huber the younger in 1771, August Kaufmann in Porrentruy , at the Wagner workshop in Bern , at Marquard Wocher (de) and finally with Johann Ludwig Aberli . In 1777, he went on a trip to Rome between 1781 and 1790. He worked there in the studio of his compatriot and painter Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros then found himself at the head of the workshop of the Italian engraver Giovanni Volpato . During this stay, he met the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He specialized in landscape drawings and engravings . His son Samuel Birmann (en) (1793-1847) is also a landscape painter.
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Master student
- Rudolf Huber the younger Master
- Marquard Wocher Student
- Johann Ludwig Aberli Master
- Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros Master
- Friedrich Salathé Student
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Artworks by this artist (63 total)
- Hilly Landscape with River and Bridge
- Italian Landscape
- La Cape aux Mousses
- Le Pont de Penne
- Pierre Pertuis
- Waterfall in the Münster Valley
- Verrerie près de Lauffon
- Environs du Lac de Bienne
- Hilly Landscape with Castle
- Landscape near Tivoli
- Verrerie près de Roche
- Entrée du Val de Moutier
- Torrent de l’Ibech
- Dorfpartie im Basler Jura
- View from the Muttenz Quarry toward Basel 1811
- Chateau d’Angenstein
- Neu-Schauenburg near Pratteln 1813
- View from the Isteinerklotz up the Rhine toward Basel 1819
- Cascade de la Birs à Correndelein
- Delémont