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Johann Melchior Wyrsch (August 21, 1732 – September 9, 1798) was a Swiss painter of the 18th century. == Life == Johann Melchior Wyrsch was born on August 21, 1732 in Buochs Unterwalden. He was honorary citizen of Besançon. Son of Balthazar Francis Xavier, Councellor, bailiff and Diet envoy, and Anna Klara Achermann. Grandson of Johann Jakob Achermann. ∞ 1761 Maria Barbara Keyser, daughter of Kaspar Remigi Keyser. Brother in law of Ludwig Maria Keyser. Wyrsch began his art studies 1745 as a portrait painter with Johann Michael Suter in Lucerne and Franz Anton Kraus in Einsiedeln as teachers. Between 1753 and 1754 he spent a study tour in Italy, where he mainly resided in Rome and Naples. After his art studies in Italy, he returned to Switzerland and began his artistic activity as a portrait and church painter. In 1768 he moved to Besançon, where he painted many portraits of respected people. Together with the sculptor Luc Breton, whom he had met in Rome, he founded in 1773 the academy for painting and drawing '' '' ('' Académie de Peinture et de dessin '' ) in Besançon. In 1877 he traveled to Paris, and returned to Besançon, where he was appointed in 1784 to its honorary citizen. In the same year he moved to Lucerne, where he founded a school of drawing in turn '' () ''. Johann Melchior Wyrsch proposed to the Council of Lucerne in 1783 to found a School of Drawing with the task to teach talented young students in drawing and modeling. Due to an increasing blindness, he said | ascribed cataract cataracts, he withdrew to Buochs, where at the Conquest Nidwalden he was murdered by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the transition from baroque and rococo on the one hand to classical and romanticism on the other hand Wyrsch participated in the development of portraits for differentiated characterization of a single individual. He was enshrined in the "enlightened paternalism" of the Old Confederation, however, his work has been on the liberal bourgeois era. He painted as a religious painter numerous altars in Central Switzerland and the Franche-Comté that are still adorned with his paintings. He remained a central Swiss painter of the late Baroque. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melchior Wyrsch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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