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- Balthasar Anton Dunker
- Also known as
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Balthasar Anton Dunker
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primary name: Dunker, Balthasar Anton
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other name: Duncker, Balthasar
- Details
- individual; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; Swiss; Male
- Life dates
- 1746-1807
- Biography
- Draughtsman and engraver. b. Saal near Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania. Pupil of Jacob Philipp Hackert, who took him to Paris in 1765, where he was in the circle of Wille and Huquier. While there his parents became bankrupt, and he had to pay his way by selling his drawings and paintings, later taking up etching. 1772 to Basel to work in Mechel studio; to Bern 1773, where began by working for Aberli before setting up for himself. Friend of Freudenberger. Married in 1775, and in 1777 given citizenship in Bern. Did much work while in Switzerland for Hackert, then in Rome.
- Bibliography
- (autobiography) in J.C.Fuesslin, 'Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweiz', appendix, Zurich 1779, pp.131-151 (reprinted in Huber & Rost, II 1797, pp.258-65 with a catalogue of his work)
Raoul Nicolas: 'Balthasar-Antoine Dunker', Geneva, 1924 (catalogue)
Marie-Louise Schaller, 'Annäherung an die Natur: Schweizer Kleinmeister in Bern 1750-1800', Bern 1990, pp.273-78 (list of principal prints)
