Johann Balthasar Bullinger

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Johann Balthasar Bullinger (1770)
Drawing by Johann Balthasar Bullinger showing the Bauschänzli bulwark in 1770.

Johann Balthasar Bullinger (30 November 1713,

landscape painter
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Life

Bullinger was born in Langnau am Albis, the son of Heinrich Bullinger, a clergyman.[1] He was a pupil of

Berchem.[2] Bullinger also created the ceiling and wall paintings of the Zunfthaus zur Meisen, a guild house and present faience museum that was built at the Münsterhof
plaza in Zürich in 1757.

He died at Zurich in 1793.[2]

Etchings

He etched several plates in a free, painterly style; they include:[2]

  • The Portrait of J. B. Bullinger; se ipse fec.
  • A Frontispiece, with a number of Genii.
  • Two Mountainous Landscapes, with figures.
  • A set of fifty Landscapes; some from his own designs, and the others after J. F. Ermels and F. Meyer.
  • A Head; after Le Brun; engraved for Lavater's Work.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Bullinger, Johann Balthasar". Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d Bryan 1886

Sources

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Bullinger, Johann Balthasar". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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