Gustave Jeanneret
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Gustave-Auguste Jeanneret (6 April 1847, Môtiers - 13 September 1927, Cressier)[1] was a Swiss painter who produced mostly landscapes, genre scenes and still-lifes. He was also a ceramicist. His genre scenes generally depict people at work.
His came from a family of merchants. He and his brother Georges (1848-19?) began studying art with their uncle, the painter and drawing teacher, Georges Grisel (1811-1877).[2] His professional career began with an apprenticeship as a designer for Zuber & Cie, a decorative wallpaper manufacturer, at their office in Rixheim.[1] In 1867, he moved to Paris, where he designed ceramics and studied painting at the Académie Suisse.[citation needed]
He adopted radical political beliefs and, shortly before the Commune, joined the "Chambre syndicale des dessinateurs sur étoffes"; part of the First International.[3] His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1876.[2]
In 1878, he returned to Switzerland and settled in Neuchâtel. There, he served as secretary of the Jura Federation and became an associate of the anarchist, James Guillaume.[3]
In 1888, he married Emma Wolfrath, daughter of the printer and publisher, Henri Wolfrath,[1] then purchased a former winemaker's shop in Cressier, where he set up a studio and attempted to introduce the modern styles of painting he had learned in Paris. Gustave Courbet and Camille Corot had been major influences.[2] In the 1890s, he began to do Alpine landscapes.[citation needed]
Together with Eugène Burnand and Karl Alfred Lanz, he was a commissioner for the Swiss art department at the Exposition Universelle (1889).[2] As a member of the "Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler und Bildhauer" he helped create a relief fund for indigent artists. From 1901 to 1905, he was a member of the "Eidgenössische Kunstkommission; serving as President from 1903 to 1904.[1] In 1919, he was one of the founders of the "Fédération suisse des travailleurs intellectuels".[2]
After his death, he was largely forgotten until a major retrospective was held at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Neuchâtel) in 1998.[citation needed]
His son, Blaise Jeanneret (1897-1988) and daughter, Baucis de Coulon also became painters.[2]
Selected paintings
Men Working with Hammers
The Tailor
Fishing Boats on the Shores of Lake Neuchâtel
Without Hope
