genre and landscape painter Raphael Ritz (1832-1851)
1796 in Niederwald, Switzerland
1870
Sion / Sitten, Switzerland
sigrist Josef Ignaz Ritz ; Katharine Schick (mother) ;
10 siblings, 3 of them died in child-age; brothers painter Franz, sculpturist & painter Anton; grandson Walther Ritz (1878-1909), mathem. physicist
apprentice as gold coater (Vergolder) & barrel painter (Fassmaler) 1811-1812 w. Joseph Meinrad Birchler at Einsiedeln, att. municipal drawing school;
Switzerland
geologist Jean de Charpentier ; «Pierre de la Poudrière de Sion du côté du Sud», in: Essai sur les glaciers et sur le terrain erratique du bassin du Rhône (1841) ;
landscape and topographical drawing and oil painting
www.seiler.ch/herberge.html
www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=4023364&lng=de ; his Stammbuch is available at http://doc.rero.ch/record/21604/files/I-N-268_1968_10_00.pdf Sion
DBA:I 1043 & 265 and II 1082 & 27 and III 754 & 260 ; Nagler ; ThB ; Schweizer Lexikon ; Anton Gattlen: Stammbuch v. L. J. R., Vallesia 23 (1968) ; Porträtverz. ibid. 1963 ; Aufzeichnungen des Walliser Malers L.J.R.. Notizen aus meinem Leben (ibid. 1961) ;
see also his oil painting Hl. Sebastian, 1837,, Brig, Sebastianskapelle; Altargemälde, 1854/57,Chandolin, Pfarrkirche Ste-Barbe; Heimsuchung Mariä, 1833; var. museums in Sion; contribution by Dr. Tobias Krüger, Staatsarchiv Solothurn
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