Emanuel Witz

Emanuel Witz (27 June 1717 – 11 December 1797) was a Swiss painter, born in Biel.[1]

Johann Heinrich Lips, Portrait of Emanuel Witz, ca. 1790

Witz was inspired by his brother (a sculptor) to apply himself to drawing. He subsequently received drawing lessons from Robert Huber in Bern. In 1738 he moved to Paris where he continued his education under instructions of the painter Louis Galloche. He made friends with Edmé Bouchardon, François Boucher, Pierre-Jacques Cazes, Charles Joseph Natoire and Charles André van Loo. Afterwards he worked in Spain and Portugal as a portrait painter, historical painter and genre painter.[2][3] Soon after his arrival he got into difficulties and returned to Biel in the 1760s.[4][5]

References
  1. "Witz Emanuel: Porträt Johann Rudolf A. Porta (1621-1648) | Kunstsammlung Biel - Collection des arts visuels de Bienne". kunstsammlung.biel-bienne.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  2. Fuessli, Johann (1779). Geschichte der besten Künstler in Schweit. 5. Orell.
  3. Müller, Friedrich (1864). Die Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. 3. Stuttgart.
  4. "Witz, Emanuel - SIKART Dictionary and database". www.sikart.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  5. Nagler, Georg (1852). Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. 22. Munich.
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