David Alois Schmid (1791 - 1861)
1791-02-09Schwyz, Switzerland1861-04-02Schwyz, Switzerland
David Alois Schmid
David Alois Schmid was a Swiss painter, draftsman and graphic artist.
David studied painting in Lucerne and at the Johann Heinrich Bleuler artists' colony in Feuertalen, in Zurich he worked on costume paintings. But he became known for his vedute paintings of landscapes and urban views of central and eastern Switzerland. Schmid also made watercolors.
Together with his brothers, the painters Franz Schmid (1796-1851) and Martin Schmid (1786-1842), he earned money by selling numerous gouaches and watercolor drawings of picturesque places in Switzerland to wealthy tourists. The engraver Franz Hegi (1774-1850) and others made engravings based on his paintings, many of which have survived to this day.
Date and place of birt: | 9 february 1791, Schwyz, Switzerland |
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Date and place of death: | 2 april 1861, Schwyz, Switzerland |
Period of activity: | XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Graphic artist, Painter |
Genre: | Cityscape, Genre art, Mountain landscape, Landscape painting, Rural landscape |
Art style: | Romanticism |
Technique: | Watercolor |