biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1730–88)
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| biography:
| Pastoral poet, who also painted and engraved landscapes, born in Zürich, N Switzerland. He ran a publishing house in Zürich, publishing books he had written and illustrated himself. His Tod Abels (1758, Death of Abel), a type of idyllic heroic prose poem, had the greatest success. His landscape paintings are all in the conventional classic style, but his engravings are of real merit. |
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