Sigmund Freudenberger

Sigmund Freudenberger (16 June 1745 – 15 November 1801) was a Swiss painter and engraver.^[1]

Biography

Freudenberger was the son of a lawyer, and studied as a portraitist. He lived from 1765 to 1773 in Paris, where he worked with François Boucher and Jean-Michel Moreau.^[2] He then founded in a private art school in Bern and was known as "Little Master" for his genre-like depictions of rural life.

References

^ Stein, Perrin; Holmes, Mary Tavener; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (1999). Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-87099-892-8.
^ Hind, Arthur Mayger (1963-06-01). A History of Engraving & Etching From the 15th Century to the Year 1914. Courier Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-486-20954-8.

Bloesch.: Freudenberger, Sigmund. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 7. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 355.
Sigmund Freudenberger in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

External links

Media related to Sigmund Freudenberger at Wikimedia Commons
Works by Sigmund Freudenberger at Project Gutenberg

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[1] Stein, Perrin; Holmes, Mary Tavener; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (1999). Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-87099-892-8.

[2] Hind, Arthur Mayger (1963-06-01). A History of Engraving & Etching From the 15th Century to the Year 1914. Courier Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-486-20954-8.

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