Johann Balthasar Bullinger
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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
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, 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.
External links
- Media related to Johann Balthasar Bullinger at Wikimedia Commons