Rüdisühli

The Rüdisühli family was a Swiss family of artists, including painters, engravers and copyists, who were active from the mid-19th to the mid-20th Century.

The family was from the Basel area. Jacob Rüdisühli was primarily a painter of landscapes and of sentimental works influenced by Arnold Böcklin. Four of his fourteen children, Hermann, Louise, Michael and Eduard, received their first training from him. The three sons all subsequently attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel (now the Schule für Gestaltung), his daughter Louise became a largely self-taught painter of portraits and landscapes; unlike her brothers', her work does not echo the motifs of Böcklin.

The Rüdisühli family's works were once fashionable, but fell out of critical favour by the end of the First World War; however, they were still being reproduced into the 1930s. Johannes Neckermann, a son of the dressage rider and businessman Josef Neckermann, collected them, particularly work by Hermann Rüdisühli, for more than 25 years; an exhibition of his collection in 2001–02 at the Yager Museum of Art & Culture at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, was the first exhibition in 105 years to reunite works of the whole family.[1] Neckermann's art collection was sold at auction in 2009.[2]

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  1. ↑ Stovall, Sue (2001). "Artspace". Guide Magazine. Catskill Mountain Foundation.
  2. ↑ Zipfel, Marion (14 February 2009). "Nagel in Stuttgart versteigert die Sammlung Josef Neckermann". Die Welt (in German).

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