Lorenz Justin Ritz ( German: Lorenz Justin Ritz ; 1796 - 1870 ) - Swiss artist. [four]
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He became a successful religious artist and portrait painter of the 19th century, leaving behind more than 650 portraits. [five]
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Biography
Born September 5, 1796 in the town of Niederwald of the Swiss canton of Valais . He was the third youngest child in a family of ten children Josef Ignaz Ritz and his wife Katharina Schwick ; at baptism received the name Joseph Lorenz Leo.
Parents wanted their son to master the profession of a butcher, but Lorenz became a student of the master Joseph Meinrad Birchler from the city of Einsiedeln , who applied gilding to wooden products, and worked for him from 1811 to 1812.
In 1816, Ritz attended a city drawing school in Geneva. From 1816 to 1819 he was a student of the historical and portrait artist Xaver Hecht (1757-1835) [6] in Willisau . From September 1819, Ritz studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich , from 1821 to 1822 - at the Academy of St. Anne in Vienna . After completing his studies, he returned to his homeland in Valais and worked as a drawing teacher at the Jesuit gymnasium Kollegium Brig in Brig .
From 1832 to 1851, Ritz painted altars. In 1839, he wrote a series of lead with views of the Valais canton. In 1839, the artist and his family moved to Sion, where he opened a private drawing school. From 1848 to 1866 he worked as a drawing teacher in Sion, from 1849 to 1853 - for some time in Brig.
Having created a large number of portraits, Lorenz Ritz kept from 1818 until the end of his life a catalog of people depicted by him. He also left memoirs “Notizen zu meinem Leben für meine lieben Kinder” .
He died on January 30, 1870 in Sion, Switzerland.
Family
He was married since 1826 to Clara Josephine, nee Kaiser, from Stans , who also came from an art family, her brothers - artist Heinrich Kaiser and sculptor Franz Kaiser. [7] The family had four children, one of whom, Raphael , also became an artist.
In 1842, Clara Josephine died, and in 1846, Ritz married Marguerite de Torrenté for years .
Proceedings
The artist’s works are in many museums and private collections in Switzerland.
- Some work
Emmanuel joris
Ignaz Crown
Canon of St. Maurice
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950
- ↑ 1 2 Artnet - 1998.
- ↑ SIKART - 2006.
- ↑ Lorenz Justin Ritz
- ↑ Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft: Ritz, Lorenz Justin - Fabian Perren, 1998 (German)
- ↑ Xaver Hecht 1757-1835
- ↑ Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft: Ritz, Raphael - Fabian Perren, 1998 (German)