Emanuel Witz (27 June 1717 – 11 December 1797) was a Swiss painter, born in Biel.
Witz was inspired by his brother (a sculptor) to apply himself to drawing. He subsequently received drawing lessons from Johann Rudolf 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. Soon after his arrival, he got into difficulties and returned to Biel in the 1760s.
References
- "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.
- Fuessli, Johann (1779). Geschichte der besten Künstler in Schweit. Vol. 5. Orell.
- Müller, Friedrich (1864). Die Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Vol. 3. Stuttgart.
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- Nagler, Georg (1852). Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. Vol. 22. Munich.
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External links
- "Witz, Emanuel". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
- Werke von Emanuel Witz in der Kunstsammlung Biel
- Dictionnaire du Jura - Witz, Emmanuel
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