Salomon Gessner

Shop 0 artworks by Salomon Gessner (Swiss, 1730–1788) — every piece is public domain and can be printed as canvas, rolled canvas, framed canvas or a framed print.

Salomon Gessner was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, newspaper publisher, and poet, best known in the latter instance for his Idylls. He was a co-founder of the Helvetic Society and the first publisher and editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

At a glance

Most of Salomon Gessner's work on the site falls under Prints (35), Landscape (3), Drawings (2).

By movement, it's catalogued as Neoclassicism (40), Rococo (1).

Culture: Swiss (41).

By orientation: 13 landscape, 28 portrait.

Dated work in this group ranges from 1753 to 1788.

Other Swiss artists of the period

If you like this artist, these contemporaries are catalogued too:

• Angelica Kauffmann — 214 artworks
• Franz Niklaus König — 178 artworks
• Henry Fuseli — 166 artworks
• Johann Ludwig Aberli — 139 artworks
• Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros — 123 artworks
• Johann Caspar Fuessli — 49 artworks
• Gottfried Mind — 48 artworks
• Jacques-Laurent Agasse — 33 artworks

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Sizes and framing

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