Rafael Ritz

Rafael Ritz (January 17, 1829 in Brig- April 11, 1894 in Sion), was a Swiss painter.

Biography

He studied painting at first with his father Lorenz Justin Ritz [Félix Caruzzo, "Lorenz Justin Ritz", éditions Monographic, 1994. ISBN 2-88346-034-8] (1796–1870), then with Melchior Paul von Deschwanden [ [http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F22002.php "Deschwanden, Melchior Paul von"] in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.] (1811-1881), and finally, in Düsseldorf with Heinrich Karl Mücke (1806–1891) and Rudolf Jordan (1810–1887).

He mostly painted in Switzerland, in his canton of Valais where he represented everyday life's scenes. Some of his works are indubitably part of the Swiss realist movement, treating the subject as the naturalists would have. He made numbers of landscape paintings as well as peasant's interiors but very few portraits. He founded with Ernest Biéler and others, the Ecole of Savièse.

He is the father of the physicist, Walther Ritz, most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg-Ritz formula.

ources

*Cite book
title=Raphaël Ritz, 1829-1894
author=Walter Ruppen
location=Sion
publisher=Éditions de la Matze
year=1980 OCLC|8113093
*Cite book
title=Raphael Ritz, 1829-1894
author=Sabine Leyat; Anton Nanzer; Pascal Ruedin; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de la Majorie
location=Visp
publisher=Rotten
year=1999 OCLC|47785324

References

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NAME=Ritz, Raphael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH=January 17, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH=Brig (Switzerland)
DATE OF DEATH=April 11, 1894
PLACE OF DEATH=Sion (Switzerland)