Ferdinand SOMMER

(Johann Andreas Ferdinand Heinrich Ludwig Sommer)

The painter Ferdinand Sommer is one of the most important and best-known Thun veduta painters of the 19th century. Ferdinand Hodler was apprenticed to F. Sommer in order to train in veduta painting.

Short biography

1822 born in Coburg, Germany – first lessons with Friedrich Rauscher the Young, Coburg – lessons with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Karlsruhe 1855 settles in Thun, where he exhibits his paintings in the same year around 1870 Ferdinand Sommer teaches Ferdinand Hodler how to paint vedute

1878 move to Lucerne 1881 exhibition of his paintings in Zurich 1901 died in Lucerne, Switzerland

Sources

1. Schaufelberger, Albert: Die Thuner Vedutenmaler, 1855-1930, Thun 1983, p. 104.
2. Ferdinand Sommer im SIKART Lexikon

Works by Ferdinand Sommer

Below you will find works by Ferdinand Sommer: