Johann Ludwig Aberli

Johann Ludwig Aberli (1723 – 17 October 1786) was a Swiss painter and etcher.

Wimmis (engraving, around 1783)
Johann Ludwig Aberli

Aberli was born in Winterthur. He is primarily known for his landscapes of Switzerland, first etched in contours then painted or colorized. This style is later to be known as the Aberli manner and found many imitators, such as Heinrich Rieter Senior, Franz Niklaus König or Johann Jakob Bidermann. He trained Samuel Hieronymus Grimm[1] and John Webber. He is said to have trained with J. Erim in Bern. He died in Bern, aged 53.

Sources
  1. Samuel Grimm at Answers.com accessed 21 September 2007
  • Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - online version at Wikisource
  • Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007. p. 19.
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