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Johann Rudolf Huber


Johann Rudolf Huber (April 21, 1668 – February 28, 1748) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Albrecht von Haller .

Huber was born as the son of a landlord in Basel. There, in Bern, Venice and Rome he learned to paint. In 1699 he was appointed court painter at the court in Stuttgart. He did portraits of nearly 5,000 of his contemporaries. He died in Basel.

Huber was one of the most important Swiss painters of his time.

Beat Fischer (1697)

François-Louis de Pêmes de St.Saphorin

Markgraf Carl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach (1710)

Marschall von Mentzingen

Der Badener Friedenskongress (1714)

Samuel Frisching

Christoph Steiger

Albrecht von Haller

Portrait of an unknown woman

Susanna Elisabetha Lupicki

Friedrich Karl von Württemberg, 1700

Johann Rudolf Rudolf

Carl Friedrich Drollinger

Daniel Bernoulli

self-portrait



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